Your Digital Life After Death

This week's All Tech Considered segment deals with what happens after we reach our final mortal destination. Where do all our e-mails, social media accounts and important files go when we die and who'll take of them for us in our absence?

Here are some of the Web sites we talked about in the segment as well as other research we found for this piece:

• At South by Southwest Interactive this year, there was a very good discussion of the legal and practical issues. The panel was called "Who Will Check My E-mail After I Die?" My colleague Lilly Rockwell blogged about the panel and wrote a follow-up column on the topic.
  
• Another write-up of that panel.
  
• Some sites mentioned that offer after-death e-mail or virtual locker services: Legacy Locker, Slightly Morbid, Great Goodbye, myLastEmail.com.
  
• A family successfully sued Yahoo! for access to the e-mail of a Marine who'd died in Iraq.
  
• Obituary/memorial sites include Legacy.com, Gates of Remembrance and Eobituary
• More stories about online memorial sites
• When online funerals go bad: a "World of Warcraft" funeral gets raided. The video gets posted online for laughs.
  
• How social networks deal with death.
  
• Even fictional characters get online eulogies.
  
• Check out the comments on this Slashdot post about "Post-suicide account cracking." Fascinating points of view.
  
• Short Oklahoma Gazette story on the topic.
  
• Tips from USA Today on how to plan ahead for your digital files should you pass away.

Got more ideas and Web sites or thoughts on the subject? Please post them in the comments.