{"id":184,"date":"2014-04-22T11:45:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2014-04-22T11:48:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T15:48:18","slug":"death-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Death in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sadly,<\/a>
Sadly, giving extra lives does not work in RL.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

People in modern times have lives online as well as offline. Social media presence often outlasts us. I doubt a lot of surviving families give any thought in their grieving on how to handle the online life of the deceased. But sometimes it just gets creepy.<\/p>\n

A cousin of mine recently passed away. Without giving too many details, let me say that he suffered from a degenerative disease, and we knew he was in the final stages. It was not sudden, or a surprise. He, like many of us, was on Facebook. He played Candy Crush. I know, because until he got too ill to play, we used to send each other lives. His account has not been shut down or removed from Candy Crush. Every once in a while, Candy Crush asks me if I’d like to give my cousin a life.<\/p>\n

Man, do I wish I could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People in modern times have lives online as well as offline. Social media presence often outlasts us. I doubt a lot of surviving families give any thought in their grieving on how to handle the online life of the deceased. But sometimes it just gets creepy. A cousin of mine recently passed away. Without giving … Continue reading Death in the Digital Age<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4cuFc-2Y","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187,"href":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entropologie.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}