You Can Still Post on Facebook When You’re Dead
I just discovered a new Facebook option — the legacy contact. The legacy contact function allows you to choose a Facebook friend to continue your Facebook page after you die. You can decide specifically what the living friend can do with your page — delete it, make private posts public, post photos. I guess Facebook doesn’t have enough information on us when we’re alive, so they’ve figured out a way to get even more details after we’re dead.
I would think someone you trust enough to designate as your posthumous Facebook account administrator might not be in the mood to deal with your social media page after learning of your demise. But it would be important to at least post a “she’s dead” message, so your friends know why they haven’t heard from you lately.
Many photo possibilities come to mind. Other than, of course, pictures commemorating you at different times of your life, how about selfies of your friends gathered around your coffin? Or of you, if you have an open casket. A funeral video for those who aren’t able to attend would be a nice touch. Maybe some lowering-into-the-grave pics. And how about some candid shots of loved ones cleaning out your closets?
Not that I believe in life after death, but if it did exist, maybe you could communicate with your Facebook legacy contact to finally give the real scoop on what it’s like on the other side. My idea of heaven would be a chocolate buffet that would last for eternity. But that’s just me.
