What happens to my late husband’s digital life now he’s gone?

Since her husband, Iain, died seven months ago, Caroline Twigg has had to face an unexpected problem - what to do with his online legacy

nyctwigg: Ah, there you are; a Skype username you created while working in New York for a month. And here I am, trying to call someone yet absent-mindedly pulling up your profile. In the tiny square picture icon, you are there in your blue T-shirt, leaning over the table and smiling at the camera. Next to your name it says, "Hear me now".

That drove me mad; you'd sit there and repeat, "Hear me now? Hear me now?" A deliberately annoying mantra, because you knew I could hear you perfectly well. I would hang up and redial to a laughing you and we'd catch up, but today I sit and stare, wishing I could conjure up that annoying voice again. Even just once.