[telecom] Bequeathing the Keys to Your Digital Afterlife

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Bequeathing the Keys to Your Digital Afterlife

By ANNE EISENBERG May 25, 2013

It's tough enough to write an ordinary will, deciding how to pass along worldly goods like your savings, your real estate and that treasured rocking chair from Aunt Martha in the living room.

But you may want to provide for your virtual goods, too. Who gets the photographs and the e-mail stored online, the contents of a Facebook account, or that digital sword won in an online game?

These things can be important to the people you leave behind.

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