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What to Do Before You Die: A Tech Checklist

WSJ [paywall] – What happens to your Facebook and Google accounts—and other digital stuff—when you die? “Nothing if you don’t make a plan. Earlier this year, I recorded my mother talking about her life. A few weeks later, after a complication with a routine medical procedure, she was in an intensive care unit, fighting for that life. In some dark twist of fate, I got the call to come to the hospital as I was filming a scene for a Wall Street Journal documentary on death and technology. It was my work on that project that prompted me to ask her how she wants to be remembered. Today she is back to her healthy self. But the lesson lived on for both of us—and far too many others in 2020: It’s never too early to plan for the inevitable…”

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