The digital afterlife industry is here to help you plan your death - Rest of World

People everywhere are figuring out how to mourn and how to prepare for their own death.

Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis/Getty Images By Marianne Bray 14 February 2021 • Hong Kong, Hong Kong It was a steamy Thursday night in mid-June when my 90-year-old father-in-law phoned from Sydney. He was in the hospital and called to wish us, his family in Hong Kong, “good luck” with our lives. He died on Saturday morning, and the service was set for Tuesday. It was too complicated to go to Australia, and even if we’d been able to fly to Sydney, the funeral home wouldn’t have let us in because of distancing rules. So, from more than 7,350 kilometers away, we chose to honor him virtually. The

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