The Rise of AI Generated Obituaries - Why Do They Exist?
Is there no line AI won't cross for attention?
Digital Legacy
Digital Grave-Robbing: How AI Is Plundering Online Obituaries
Is there no line AI won't cross for attention?
re:publica 25: Six Feet Under a Data Centre: Let's talk about Death and Legacy online!
Six Feet Under a Data Centre: Let's talk about Death and Legacy online!
How do we die online? Innovation, hypes, and glitches – the shifting tech landscape chips away at the taboos surrounding death and reshapes how we address loss and legacy. Join a candid conversation about digital death care, forever-promises, AI ‘seances’ and a new dimension of digital rights.
What is a letter of wishes? In the UK
A letter of wishes is a document which accompanies your will and provides guidance to the people dealing with your estate after you've passed away.
Digital legacy apps and services
arious companies that provide digital legacy related apps and services
A digital-age reboot of the stages of grief? | Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife | University of Helsinki
The University of Helsinki blog post "A digital-age reboot of the stages of grief?" critiques the widespread and often rigid application of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's "five stages" model to the grieving process. The article clarifies that Kübler-Ross's original work, On Death and Dying (1969), focused on the psychological responses of terminally ill patients facing their own death, not a prescriptive roadmap for the bereaved.
Road rage victim 'speaks' via AI at his killer's sentencing
The defendant got the maximum of 10½ years for the 2021 murder. His attorney called the presentation "inflammatory," providing grounds for appeal.
Apple's Plan for Digital Legacy: Who Can Access Your Data After You Die?
What Happens to Your Digital Legacy After You Die? Apple’s Finally Letting You Decide
Black Mirror 2x01 "Be Right Back" - Trakt
After learning about a new service that lets people stay in touch with the deceased, a lonely, grieving Martha reconnects with her late lover.
Black Mirror 3x04 "San Junipero" - Trakt
In a seaside town in 1987, a shy young woman and an outgoing party girl strike up a powerful bond that seems to defy the laws of space and time.
What is Hereditas | Hereditas
Hereditas, which means inheritance in Latin, is a static website generator that builds fully-trustless digital legacy boxes, where you can store information for your relatives to access in case of your sudden death or disappearance.
For example, you could use this to pass information such as passwords, cryptographic keys, cryptocurrency wallets, sensitive documents, etc.
Most people have no plan for ‘digital death’, Which? finds
New Which? research shows most consumers have no plan for what happens to their digital accounts and online assets when they die, leaving huge risk of emails, photos and social media accounts being locked up and inaccessible to loved ones when they pass away
Death goes digital – what does it mean for the living? | Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife | University of Helsinki
How do the dead live among us today? What kind of relationships can be established between the living and the dead in today’s society? How does one achieve immortality in the present- day digital society? What is the relevance of digital afterlife to both the dead and the living?
Logging off life but living on: How AI is redefining death, memory and immortality
re:publica 2024: Linn Friedrichs - Death Doula Superpowers – How Learning About Dying Could ...
re:publica 2024: CTRL+S: Saving our digital memories
Death Glitch
Since the internet’s earliest days, people have died and mourned online. In quiet corners of past iterations of the web, the dead linger. But attempts at preserving the data of the dead are often ill-fated, for websites and devices decay and die, just as people do. Death disrupts technologists’ plans for platforms. It reveals how digital production is always collaborative, undermining the entrepreneurial platform economy and highlighting the flaws of techno-solutionism.
The New Death: Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
Digital Justice blog
Lasting Powers of Attorney: from alpha to beta
An eerie ‘digital afterlife’ is no longer science fiction. So how do we navigate the risks?
DIGITAL DEATH: TRANSFORMING HISTORY, RITUALS AND AFTERLIFE CONFERENCE | Digital Death: Transforming History, Rituals and Afterlife | University of Helsinki
Death Online Research Network
Unravelling the Digital Afterlife: Where Death Meets Data
What Happens to Our Digital Footprints When We Die? w/ Tamara Kneese - Tech Won’t Save Us