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How valuable are your Tweets?
It has was acknowledged by Twitter that tweets have an emotional value, when they backtracked their decision to cull the accounts of deceased people in 2019. Have you ever considered how valuable your tweets might be and if they have a monetary value? This week the...
Cremation and Mercury
An article in The Daily Telegraph is my prompt for writing about mercury levels in the UK. In an article dated 25/01/21 a Daily Telegraph reporter explained that the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) has given The UK Centre for Ecology and...
Brexit and The Right To Be Forgotten
The Right to Be Forgotten Legislation was established by the European Court of Justice in 2014. This legislation gives people who live in the EU the opportunity to apply to search engines, such as Google, to have certain data removed. Although Google claimed to...
An Appropriate Memorial
When my Dad died in May 2020, I created a digital memorial for him. This gave his friends and family a virtual space to remember him, when meeting up physically was difficult, due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The website I created contains pictures, tributes, video and...
Digital Twins
Advances in technology allow for replicas of things to be created digitally. A ‘digital twin’ for example of a car engine allows manufacturers to work digitally on an engine rather than physically. This has many advantages for developers. Digital twins can also...
Probate
My experience with a probate application for my father who died earlier this year is the prompt for this article. I was appointed executor in my Dad’s will along with my sister. It is not uncommon for parents to name their children as executors, and many will...
AFTR – reimagining a trip to the cemetery
I would like to introduce you to AFTR - reimagining a trip to the cemetery. Life, Loss & Love is a global virtual community- driven festival which aims to stimulate conversation about embracing life by facing death. The current 2020 festival is a response to...
Digital Death – social media
I submitted a request to deactivate my father's Twitter account following his death. He did not really use Twitter very much. Part of cleaning up his digital footprint though meant working through the closure of his social media accounts and memorialising others. The...
Why creating a digital shrine for my Dad is helping me with grief
My Dad died on the 8th May 2020. He was 85 and lived a full and happy life. He died in hospital during the Coronavirus pandemic, meaning that visiting him in hospital was restricted. A small funeral was held for him at the local crematorium, with 9 mourners attending...