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When you impersonate your deceased sibling online

I have been pretending to be my dead sister on social media for two years because I cannot handle telling people she is gone and now I do not know how to stop.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital deception can become a way of avoiding the finality of death that creates increasingly complex webs of false connection.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Digital legacy — your online presence after death?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.