Reports & Research

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 Report 2025 will be published in May 2025.

The Digital Death Survey will make datasets open access.

The Digital Death Survey 2024 has now stopped accepting submissions. The report will be published in May 2025.

To read the Digital Death Survey 2024 Press Release click here.

Sample datasets from previous years

Below is a variety of different datasets collected from the Digital Legacy Association’s Digital Death Survey since 2014. The data is displayed in different formats and contexts.

The Digital Death Survey 2024

(preliminary dataset, poster)

Uncompressed poster and reference: ResearchGate

The Digital Death Report 2021

Data from the Digital Death Survey 2020-2021 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

2018 was the first year we worked with Siena College on the Digital Death Survey and Report.

Download the Digital Death Survey 2018

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.