Abstract
The informational remains of dead internet users are increasingly populating the web. To survey the most significant aspects of this phenomenon, the present chapter gives a historical background to the role death in society, and draws on current literature on the topic of digital afterlife. It is argued that the ongoing digital transformation of death takes place both on a microscopic, a macroscopic and a conceptual level.
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Öhman, C. (2019). From Bones to Bytes: A New Chapter in the History of Death. In: Öhman, C., Watson, D. (eds) The 2018 Yearbook of the Digital Ethics Lab. Digital Ethics Lab Yearbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17152-0_11
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