Here is an excellent example of the use of online digital records, as reported in the NewScientist May 02, 2011.

"NOT long before my wife died, she asked me to do something for her. "Make sure people remember me," she said. "Not the way I am now. The way I was." Having spent most of her life as an assertive, ambitious and beautiful woman, Kathryn didn't want people's memories to be dominated by her final year, in which the ravages of disease and continual chemotherapy had taken her spirit, vitality and looks. "

Sumit Paul Choudhury, editor of newscientist.com built her a memorial website.