ABSTRACT
How does the technical capacity for digital remains of lives and relationships to ‘live on’ figure in survivors' creative storying of their dead? Citing the longitudinal experiences of a woman grieving with respect to records of text messaging correspondence with her late sister, this chapter argues that the technical capability for such material to ‘live on’ does not necessarily equate to an afterlife in grievers' experience. Rather, it is survivors' creative harnessing of such material into emergent narratives, which are mutable to their continuing and shifting experiences, that accords it the potential to ‘live on’.
