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    Life after death: How will you handle your digital legacy?

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    Mona Lalwani
    Mona Lalwani
    03.13.2016

    You're dead. It's the hypothetical scenario Megan Yip, an estate-planning attorney, gives her clients when they show up at her office in the Bay Area. She makes them think about what they would want to do with their belongings before asking them to create a catalog of everything they own. It's a standard step in the making of a last will. But Yip adds another layer to the process. She asks for a digital inventory that details their online existence.