Help, I inherited a dead man's computer

Making a final sorting in the deceased's computer, a difficult step in mourning -

When a loved one goes missing, it's never easy to poke around in your business.

Whether it is his clothes, his photos or his trinkets, most of these traces remind us of his absence in mind and rekindle our sorrows.

But when it comes time to sort out the affairs of the deceased, there is usually an object that crystallizes the tensions: the computer.

Reformatting?

Very contemporary embarrassment, the heritage computer centralizes memories.

Some are very personal, too much.

Others, like photos or videos, also belong in some way to relatives of the deceased who want to benefit from them.

Not to mention the administrative documents to keep or produce which make the option of "reformatting the hard drive" or scrapping almost unthinkable.

Very often, computers sleep in a cellar where their heirs will never go looking for them, taking refuge behind a password they do not have or a disc that is too messy, to justify their abandonment.

And yet, sorting out the missing person's computer is perhaps a very important step in the grieving process today.

As part of our series on digital death launched on the occasion of the program “Death, if we were talking about it” organized by Maif, we would like to hear your testimony.

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