By the end of this century, Facebook might start to feel more like a digital graveyard than a place for the living.

I just completed one of those things that none of us like doing, making a will. I recently had a major change of circumstances in my life, and decided that I should make appropriate updates and provisions. After all, who gets my Batman and Spiderman comics? Anyways, it’s been bugging …

Brain activity may continue for more than 10 minutes after the body appears to have died, according to a new study. Canadian doctors in an intensive care unit appear to have observed a person's brain continuing to work even after they were declared clinically dead. In the case, doctors confirmed their patient was dead through a range of the normal observations, including the absence of a pulse and unreactive pupils. But tests showed that the patients’ brain appeared to keep working – experiencing the same kind of brain waves that are seen during deep sleep.

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France has a long history of naming roads or train stations after notable people – and not just its own. The Burgundy town of Avallon followed the tradition by naming a street after the Labour MP

E’ stato calcolato che nel 2060 oltre la metà degli iscritti online non saranno più vivi. Cosa ne sarà dei loro dati? Scriviamo, postiamo, taggiamo come se... #boxtomorrow #crittografia #datisicuri

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I più superstiziosi faranno sicuramente qualche gesto scaramantico. Eppure, come disse Benjamin Franklin, "al mondo di sicuro ci sono solo la morte e le tasse".

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To help you get the most out of retirement, a growing array of apps and websites offer assistance with budgeting, Social Security questions, lifestyle planning and many other essentials.

The number of end-of-life planning and document storage sites is on the rise.

Two anglers have honoured their late fisherman friend by turning his ashes into a bait that snared a giant 180lbs catch.

Widow Maria Raybould is threatened with bailiffs over her late husband's phone contract

A deceased postman has become an unlikely celebrity in Holland after his ashes washed up there.

The dearly departed may literally be pushing up daisies on the summits of Britain's most iconic mountains, scientists have said.

Undertakers are being forced to divide ashes, set up password systems and supervise visits to funeral homes because of warring families who can't agree on funeral arrangements.

The Roman Catholic Church has banned the scattering of ashes of the dead, insisting that, in some circumstances, those who request it for themselves should even be denied a “Christian funeral”.

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People will be able to have their ashes scattered in space from next month when a British company launches the first extra-terrestrial funeral service.

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A woman who brutally murdered her boyfriend posted an online tribute to him just hours later on Facebook in an attempt to cover up her crime. Zoe Warren was jailed for life alongside friend Keiran Adey after Mark Shaw was found dead with more than 80 injuries at his home in Newcastle.

Michael Fry's annual Halloween graveyard for dying trends is a neighbourhood hit in Mamaroneck, N.Y.