HOW TO AVOID DIGITAL IMMORTALITY
“DO YOU HAVE HER PASSWORD FOR FACEBOOK?”
My sister, Louise, looked across the table from behind our mother’s iPad, while I leafed through a tiny notebook full of scribbled telephone numbers, addresses, and an occasional user ID and password. “Nope,” I said. “Nothing here.”
Only the day before, our nonagenarian mother, Miep, had passed away peacefully. Louise and I, still numb, found ourselves in her apartment in Purmerend, near Amsterdam, going through the next steps—cards, funeral arrangements—and trying to erase what made up her digital footprint.
She didn’t have a huge online presence; insecure about the digital world, Mum
