The defining feature of most any religion deals with the facet of death. Humans like all animals, face the inevitability of their own mortality throughout the course of their lives. The death factor motivates all sorts of personal and evolutionary decisions from career and production to love and reproduction. Science and technology have worked over the entirety of human history to sustain the individual and collective human life. While facebook's answer is not quite reanimation following cryogenic suspension, it's a nice gesture.
Facebook received complaints from a grieving family when one of it's members died, leaving his Facebook account active and open to posts. Since this event Facebook now offers a memorializing feature when one of it's users passes on from this life. Friends and family have the option to visit and engage in private supportive contact through the page of the deceased, but the activities will not go to the news feed and the account will not be deleted unless the family specifies.
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