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==Practicalities==

===Planning Digital estate plans ===

One method of ensuring that a digital inheritance is handled legally and comprehensively is to create a digital estate plan. This can be an informal plan or legally incorporated into a will. The practical approach to is to keep a regular [[backup]] of digital assets in a secure place and appoint a single person who will postmortem deal with the assets. An up-to-date list of passwords to online accounts would be essential, as well as determining how each online account provider handles data access after a user's death.<ref name=":43">Polk, M. J. (2019). Be right back: Black Mirror and the importance of digital estate planning. ''South Carolina Lawyer, 31''(1), 52-57. https://heinonline.org/HOL/P?h=hein.barjournals/sclwy0031&i=54</ref>

The need for forward planning of a digital inheritance has been increasingly in the media, and includes deciding what digital assets are heritable, who should inherit them, how they should be notified and how this process should be achieved. The process may include online memorialization.<ref>{{cite web|title=After your final status update|url=http://www.ted.com/talks/adam_ostrow_after_your_final_status_update#t-165405|publisher=Adam Ostrow on Ted Talks|accessdate=2014-04-11}}</ref>

===Password vaults===