#142: Immortality In The Digital Age with Elaine Kasket

About Our Guest

Dr Elaine Kasket is a journalist, author and psychotherapist and joins us on Digital Mindfulness to discuss the intersection of death, grief and digital spaces. In her book, All The Ghosts In The Machine: Illusions of Immortality In The Digital Age, Elaine documents how the digital age affects how we live and how we die, and how that affects the living.

Episode Highlights

• Who owns our data when we die?
• Can we bequeath our digital profiles when we die?
• Should we create more or less content online?

Connect With Elaine

• Elaine Kasket
• Elaine Kasket Twitter
• All The Ghosts In The Machine

Resources Mentioned In the Show

• Facebook Memorialisation
• Social Embers
• Black Mirror: Be Right Back
• Germany Data Ethics Commission
• The Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA)
• Real v fake: debunking the ‘drunk’ Nancy Pelosi footage
• The Final Cut
• Sharenting