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How to decide what happens to a dying parent's social media presence

My mother has been posting on Facebook every day for ten years and she is dying and I do not know if I should memorialize her account or keep it active so I can still see her words.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The permanence of digital presence forces us to choose how we want to remember and be remembered.

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