They become memorial pages. The media found out about that some time ago, there were a bunch of posts, newspieces and whatnot. http://www.guardian.co.uk/techno

They become memorial pages. The media found out about that some time ago, there were a bunch of posts, newspieces and whatnot. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/27/facebook-user-memorials http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/oct/27/facebook-us... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6445152/Facebook-introduces-memorial-pages-to-prevent-alerts-about-dead-members.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/6445152/Faceb... I don't know what's the status of those pages these days. Maybe an HNer who works at Facebook can enlighten us?