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  • WrappingUp.com Now Free For Basic Services

    We covered the launch of WrappingUp.com, a social networking site offering information for the recently bereaved, back in March 2011. Good news if you need that kind of information: all the content and service directories on the site are now free (there are still paid options for secure online storage and information sharing). [Wrapping Up]


  • Better Educated People Less Likely To Die, Provided They Live Long Enough

    Knowledge is power. If you’re better educated, it seems logical that you won’t die as young (you’ll earn more, you’ll have access to better health services, you’ll be more aware of the risks). However, a wide-ranging study covering 1.2 million Swedish children suggests that any death-dodging benefit from additional education isn’t statistically evident until much…


  • What Happens To My Gmail Account When I Die?

    You use a handful of web services every day, but perhaps none holds more of your personal information than your Gmail account. So what happens to your Gmail account should you end up in that big archive folder in the sky? The folks from cloud backup service Backupify set out to find out. Here’s what…