Jesus Didn't Die a Digital Death

What happens to all the digital stuff, like blogs, websites, etc., when a person dies?

Derek K. Miller was dying.

After a long battle with cancer, the tech expert was coming to the end of his life and decided to post his last words on his Penmachine blog. "The Last Post," was the title, and it began with this: "Here it is. I'm dead, and this is my last post to my blog." On the day he died, his wife clicked "Publish" on the blog site and gave his memory to the world.

Soon after, the buzz on social networking sites about Derek's post resulted in his blog getting bombarded with traffic, causing it to shut down intermittently. When the error message popped up, it suggested that people contact Derek if the problems continued, but he was no longer there to fix it.

You can go to Penmachine.com now and read his heart-wrenching final post because a friend jumped in to fix it when the crisis hit. Traffic on the Internet is fickle, though, and fades as quickly as the next shiny new web site or viral video. Derek himself realized that his blog was going to turn from an active site to ...