Holy Cow.  I was just thinking about this and wondering what would be done.  

A student at BYU passed away last week.  This has unfortunately happened twice while I have been here at school.  I saw an invite to the memorial service on facebook and I clicked on the link to the students profile.  His wall was full of thoughts from friends and family.  An impromptu memorial to his memory.  I loved the idea.

But it got me thinking.  What will happen in the future?  How does Facebook deal with someone who has died?  Can the family ask for the profile to be taken down? or changed?

Then I saw this post from the facebook blog.  

I think it is a sensible solution.  Have the option to turn the profile into a memorial.  

However I think there is still some discomfort here.  Will facebook in 100 years (if it is even around in 100 years) become a huge collection of digital memorials? 

What do you think?