If you don’t choose to have your account permanently deleted, it will be memorialised just as soon as Facebook become aware of your passing.

Memorialised accounts

Some people don’t want all trace of themselves instantly removed from the Internet.  Memorialised accounts give friends and family the opportunity to share their memories of you.   You should be aware that such accounts have the following characteristics:

• The word Rememberingwill be shown next to your name in your profile.
• Depending on your privacy settings , friends can share memories on the memorialised timeline.
• Any content you shared suchas photos or posts, will remain on Facebook
• Memorialised profiles don’t appear in public spaces such as in suggestions for People You May Know, ads or birthday reminders.
• No one can log into a memorialised account.
• Memorialised accounts that don’t have a legacy contact can’t be changed.
• Pages with a sole admin whose account was memorialized will be removed from Facebook if we receive a valid memorialisation request.

Legacy contacts

A legacy contact is someone you choose to look after your account if it’s memorialised. We strongly suggest setting a legacy contact so your account can be managed once it’s memorialised.

A legacy contact can accept friend requests on behalf of a memorialised account, pin a tribute post to the profile and change the profile picture and cover photo. If the memorialised account has an area for tributes, a legacy contact will be able to decide who can see and who can post tributes.

Deleting your account when you pass away

You can choose to have your account permanently deleted should you pass away. To do this:

1. From the top right of Facebook, click on the far right & select Settings.
2. Click Memorialisation Settings.
3. Scroll down, click Request account deletion and click Delete After Death.

For friends and family

If you’d like to create another place for people on Facebook to share memories of your loved one, we suggest creating a group.

                        Roger Bourdon

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We all hold on to more than we truly need, from the “it might come in useful one day” to “I might fit into it one day”.  We all have clothes we haven’t worn for months if not years or open a cupboard or drawer and are surprised by what’s in it that we had completely forgotten about.  So why hold on to these things if we don’t really need to as it only leaves others to deal with it when we die.

In her book, “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning : How to Free Yourself and Your Family From A Lifetime of Clutter by Margareta Magnusson (now in her 80’s) she says a good time to start is when you reach 65.  You can give things to friends and family, you can sell things you don’t think others would want to hold onto, then of course you could give items to charity shops and help the homeless

It’s not easy to start but when you do, you’re on a roll and you feel better in yourself, knowing you are making life easier for those left behind.  If you can’t answer the question “Will anyone be happier if I save this?” with a “yes” then that’s something to consider in your decluttering process!

I’m sure we either know someone or it’s happened to us, that we’ve had to deal with a person’s Estate, that’s involved us in hours and hours of our time to empty the contents of a house or flat.  It’s not only distressing, but going through someone else’s things can feel like prying or even worse things you come across trigger memories which can bring us to tears.

So there it is.  Swedish death cleaning isn’t morbid nor sad, it’s just a thoughtful way to de-clutter your home and life for practical and caring reasons.

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