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there is a Facebook app you can download, called "If I die," that you can set up at any point before your death to help put your social accounts in order and send out a last message if you wish.

Memorializing the account means turning it into a page where people can leave comments and celebrate your life, much like a Facebook Fan Page. Deleting the account means that all information and data will be completely removed from Facebook. Tagged pictures will remain if someone else originally uploaded or posted them, but all things originating from the deceased's account will be removed from the site. Downloading the contents of a Facebook account requires a formal request discussed below where Facebook verifies you as acceptable to download the information, and then the process begins from there.

Option 1: Memorializing Your Account

Having an executor of a Will is common, but also becoming common is having a digital executor to take care of those old emails you saved, your photo albums on Flickr, and your Facebook profile.

Option 2: Have Your Account Removed/Deleted

Another way in which your account can be managed is to have it completely removed. In order to do so, submit a request here and Facebook will process it as a special request for verified immediate family members. This option will completely delete the timeline and all associated content from Facebook for good, so no one can view it. All pictures and posts originating from the profile in question will be removed.

Option 3: An App That Handles Your Last Messages

One last option not accomplished directly via Facebook is a third party application called "If I Die." "If I Die" has videos that explain the different things that can happen to your Facebook profile when you die.