1. How social media affects the dying process
From the post:
When NPR Radio host Scott Simon tweeted from his mother’s deathbed, he opened a window into the usually-private process of dying.
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Jody Schoger, another cancer survivor, thinks that “the more we talk and write about death, the easier dying becomes … if you know what’s going to happen, and how it can happen, you can make some plans, know what kind of questions to ask, make your wishes known so that your family and your doctor know what you want.”
2. 1 billion new family records publicly available
Thanks to FamilySearch.org and Ancestry.org teaming up.
3. How to close your online accounts
Just Delete Me is a huge-and-growing directory of links to account deletion pages. It’s probably worth spending an afternoon going through the directory and deleting any accounts you don’t regularly use.
4. ♫ I don’t want to live forever (online) ♫
It turns out most people don’t, but one-fifth of Britons surveyed haven’t even thought about what will happen to their online accounts after they die.
Courtesy of Estate Dispatch
Related articles
- How Social Media Is Changing The Way We Approach Death – Paul Bisceglio – The Atlantic (mbcalyn.com)
- Death In The Time Of Twitter, Or, How We Grieve Now (fastcompany.com)
- Elizabeth: Can we expect to have privacy if we use social media? (2013socialmediablog.wordpress.com)