How The Times decides who gets an obituary.
Although it is convenient to suggest that if the dead are memorialized online, “they never really die,”
A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
The only real question about all this finitude is whether we’re willing to confront it or not. And this, for Heidegger, is the central challenge of human existence: since finitude defines our lives, he argues that living a truly authentic life—becoming fully human—means facing up to that fact. We must live out our lives, to whatever extent we can, ... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Since memorialized pages theoretically will never be taken down, everyone effectively can sip from the elixir of life.
A. Lewis • Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
in trade magazines like The Shroud, The Western Undertaker, and The Sunnyside.