Death and the Internet




Something that people often forget to think about is how death will evolve alongside our technological landscape.

The internet will change how we interact with death entirely.

It has been 40 years now since the creation of the internet. As time goes on and as humans age, the online world becomes more of a graveyard.

There will be vast internet documentation of death and dead people during Pluto in Aquarius.

People will explore the digital footprints of dead people.

The internet holds pieces of people’s lives and memory. Dead people’s online activity is frozen in time. Their photos, videos, texts, comments, DM’s, music libraries, journals and voice recordings stay exactly as they left them.

What they leave behind will give us a window into their final years, months, weeks, days, minutes, and even seconds before death.

Their journey will be immortalized through the internet.

Some information will be posted by the person themselves, while some will be released afterwards by friends and relatives who knew them personally or had contact with them while they were alive.

You will see the way death touches people. On the internet, it can touch everyone.

Text looks the same alive as it does dead. But the reaction we get from it is very different.

People will disappear but their footprint will remain. And the mystery of not knowing where they’ve gone will spark interest.

How is it possible that someone can live in this world so vividly, and then vanish into thin air?

It will incite a great deal of existential pondering.

People will finally stop trying to avoid the thought of death, and will actively start questioning it.

The internet is a platform where a person can preserve an entire animated archive of their life where its able to be seen globally by billions of people.

At absolutely no other point in history has this been possible.

Never before have we been able to be so directly confronted by death, and the ghosts that people leave behind.

It will be staring us straight in the eye.
People you know online will die.
But their digital bodies will remain crystallized in Time.


Their photos, videos and writings will allow us to ***time travel***.




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