- "was stabbed to death in Gloucester
earlier this year" - nope, she was killed in 2014, not 2015. - "If you die, a
relative or friendcan request for your Facebook profile to become memorialised" - nope, anyone can report a death to Facebook, not just a friend or a family member. It can be a complete stranger (which is part of the problem).
I know the link says "a family member or friend" but at no point are you required to provide any proof of being a friend or a family member - hence the ability of anyone to fill up this form. - "Whoever requests it will have to give Facebook some
proof that you have died, such as a death certificate" - nope, for requesting to memorialise an account you don't need to present a death certificate, only "a link to or copy of an obituary or other documentation about the death". You're requested to prove that you're a family member and to provide a death certificate only if you're asking to remove a profile altogether - not if you're only trying to have it memorialised.
Death in the Digital Era & Life After Death on the Net: the Digital, Virtual and Online Aspects of Current Death | Vered (Rose) Shavit's Blog | death.in.digital.era@gmail.com **I left the Digital Death realms in Mar. 2018 and returned to them in Nov. 2023, but so far only to the Hebrew version of the blog**
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22/11/2015
Nope, BBC News: You Got It Wrong
I stumbled upon this BBC News story about Hollie Gazzard and had to read it twice. I'm sorry to report that even in my third reading, the errors were still there:
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