In Case Of Actual Death: dayan: “Most people do not leave such directives, making the fate of...

dayan:

“Most people do not leave such directives, making the fate of their digital lives uncertain. One of the better-known instances of a disappeared digital legacy involves Leslie Harpold, a Web pioneer who died unexpectedly in 2006, at age 40. Her writing and other online projects…

Actually, yes, and I believe this: that “’People need to appreciate that she was a real person,’ Krauskopf says, and the family prefers to ‘remember her as she was,’” would make Leslie flip out. Please know that I may be wrong! And I agree that the situation was complicated. But Leslie didn’t think her “Web friends” weren’t her real friends. Leslie was constantly moving people off the web, into real-world friendships, even when that was difficult. So to hear a large number of people dismissed like that is pretty aggravating. It may have been unintentional. There’s other people I’d like to see weigh in on this, who would have more insight than I, but perhaps the best thing is for it not to be discussed at all. I can tell you this for sure: after being brutally ill this week, I am shortly updating my end of life directives and my estate planning documents! In case I somehow die before I get to that, please let it be known that any previous wills and estate planning documents created by me are currently null and void. There. Bam.

(Source: The New York Times)

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    The article, in itself, is kind of predictably by-the-numbers NYT Magazine plodding prose, but I admit, my shields went...

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    Actually, yes, and I...“’People need...a real person,’...

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    My very limited understanding is that this is more complicated than the internet would like it to be. Yes, we all loved...

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