The Digital Legacy Association run the Digital Death Survey to help explore attitudes and behaviours towards death and bereavement in today’s increasingly, digital world. Data is made ‘open access’ and available for editors, educators, academics and society at large.
The Digital Death Survey 2024 launches and will make datasets open access.
The Digital Death Survey explores how technology is changing society’s attitudes and behaviours in areas relating to care planning, death and bereavement. The secondary purpose of the survey is to familiarise participants with the importance of making plans for their increasingly complex, digital lives ensuring that appropriate plans are made for themselves, their digital possessions and those they care about.
- The Digital Death Survey 2024 can be viewed and completed by clicking in the following link www.bit.ly/
DigitalDeath2024 - To read the Digital Death Survey 2024 Press Release click here.
The Digital Death Survey 2020
Data from the Digital Death Survey 2020 has been shared in the following academic posters
- Why Digital Assets planning and Digital Legacy safeguarding should form a holistic approach to advance care planning (presented at the 7th International African Palliative Care Conference 2022)
To download this poster for free click here.
- Death, the internet and COVID-19 – Insights from the Digital Death Survey (presented at the European Association of Palliative Care World Congress 2020)
To download this poster for free click here.
The Digital Death Survey 2018
This year we are running the Digital Death Survey with Siena College. We would appreciate it if you were to complete this year’s survey using the following link:
Download the Digital Death Survey 2018
Previous Reports
Information about previous Digital Death Surveys and subsequnt Digital Death Reports can be viewed below:
The Digital Death Survey 2017
An overview from Digital Death Report 2018 can be downloaded here. Further analysis was published and showcased at Hospice UK’s annual conference in November 2017.
The Digital Death Survey 2016
The Digital Death Report 2016 can be viewed below
The Digital Death Survey 2014
An overview from the Digital Death Survey 2014 can be viewed in the Infographic below: 
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