Swedish firm offers to manage your online afterlife

Lisa Granberg and Elin Tybring run the small online company Webwill from an old industrial building not far from Stockholm's city center. The Web site has a simple design. At the top of the screen, large letters proclaim that this is where you should come to manage your digital identity in the afterlife.

As Granberg explains, the business concept is not complicated either. "You create an account and tell us which online services you use, and what changes we should make after your death," she told Deutsche Welle. "So if you're on Facebook, you give us your login name and password - which we save in encrypted form - along with instructions about whether we should deactivate your account or upload certain information. Once we're informed of your death, we execute your digital will, so to speak."