What happens to dead peoples' Facebook pages?

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Does someone else have to deactivate it?

[Sara]

There is a place on facebook (i can't remember where) where you can report a persons death so that the page can be deactivated.

[Meg]

they stay up unless someone goes on it and deletes it, my friend died from a cardiac arrest in his school's pool and he just has loads of sympathy and gbnf notes on his wall, so yeah, it' stays up there

[Apache]

They will remain there until some reports..forgot FB there must be millions of mail ID's of dead people..and very few people knows that's its put a huge pressure on those mailing servers thus contribute to Global warming. The free mail providers like yahoo Gmail etc and also social Network sites should delete those profile which are dormant for a long time lets say an year.