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Artur Rubenstein's obituary of more than twenty years ago is well worth reading at any time.
There's a virtual graveyard of online obituary sites out there — places where people tried to build a business out of allowing families to post memorial pages. It turns out that local newspapers can survive doing this, but it's a hard start-up quest. The funeral industry offers online memorials as a line item.
What happens when you die online?