In the days before technology, death was a relatively simple affair: the belongings of the deceased could be sorted through and boxed up, divided among friends and family to act as a permanent and tangible reminder of a life.In the digital age, though, things are not so easy. As well as the physical belongings, there is a cyber-existence to take care of: Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts, online photo libraries, personal documents. Sites such as MySpace and Facebook are littered with profiles of people who are no longer with us. There is something unbearably poignant and mildly discomforting about this. Here are their last photos, thoughts and messages, held forever in a sort of perpetual suspended animation. What happens to these when someone dies?
http://www.theage.com.au/national/the-last-logoff-death-on-the-net-20090424-ai4e.html
http://www.smh.com.au/national/the-last-logoff-death-on-the-net-20090424-ai4e.html
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