7 Resources for Handling Digital Life After Death
mashable.com/2010/10/11/social-media-after-death
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Death is a fact of life. When someone dies, theyre no longer physically here, but their digital self lives on. There are more than 5 million accounts on Facebook that are inactive due to death, according to the calculations of BlackBook Medias Executive Editor Chris Mohney. And thats just Facebook. Think about all of the other social sites and online services out there the number of abandoned accounts due to death must be enormous.