Facebook has become home to 1.8 billion active monthly users. But what happens when those users pass away? Does Facebook become a digital graveyard? When Eugenia Kuyda’s best friend Roman unexpectedly passed away, she wasn’t ready to say goodbye so soon. In an effort to keep parts of him still alive, she turned to the digital world for inspiration. Using artificial intelligence, Kuyda and her team developed a digital bot that resembled Roman. She could message Roman and his bot would respond. It had his sense of humor, his taste in music, his fears, and knew how he felt about long days at work. It’s probably pretty eerie and mind-bending to message someone when they are no longer here, but for some it feels like they are. Roman’s bot, however, brought comfort to his friends and provided closure. Facebook has also been thinking about how to approach death and created the ‘Legacy Contact’. You can appoint someone as a ‘Legacy Contact’ to look after your account after you pass. They can do things such as accept friend requests, change your profile picture, or pin a post to your profile, such as a last message on your behalf. While it might not provide the instant gratification Kuyda’s bot does, it proves that the large digital world could become a modern tool for grieving as it prepares to handle death and it’s effect on the people around you. So, if you could have a digital version of yourself around after you passed, would you?!