Go watch this WSJ documentary about living on digitally after you die
How do you want to be remembered after you die? A new documentary from Wall Street Journal tech reporter (and Verge alum) Joanna Stern examines the idea of what it means to pass on a digital legacy, and how we think about preserving our identities after death.
She interviews Lucy, a young woman with a medical condition who is bound to a wheelchair and needs a feeding tube. Lucy is acutely aware of creating a digital footprint that will outlive her, but her mother Kate is not so certain about what may comfort her if Lucy passes on.
Stern also spoke to James Vlahos, a man who recorded interviews with his terminally ill father and created a Dadbot" to keep his father's personality traits - as well as his jokes and his singing - alive...