I wrote this blog piece back in in 2006 when the social media trend was just starting to emerge about what to with the social profiles of the deceased. As well with my own experiences as a software designer.

What happens when your user is dead? are the kinds of special use cases we often fail to consider when rushing out the minimum viable product.

http://www.thomaspurves.com/2006/05/10/the-dead-sender-probl...