[ma2rten]

I work for a Dutch social network. We introduced In Memoriam status for member who passed away. The family members can ask for it. We will then show their date of death on their profile and won't send out birthday notifications and things like that anymore.

Here is an article about it: http://thenextweb.com/eu/2011/03/23/dutch-social-network-hyv...

[cormiston]

I think this is a great idea! Facebook could use this functionality.

You can declare certain people on Facebook "family members." Perhaps you could assign those people certain permissions to control your profile in specific use cases, like death.