If a person dies suddenly, how does their facebook profile get deleted?

[Display Name]

I was just wondering because a kid that I went to high school with (he was 2 years younger than me) hung himself this past summer and his profile is still on facebook. Isn't there any way that someone can delete it? I'm assuming nobody can get onto it cause they don't know his password. But does facebook have a way that his friends could do it somehow?

[highsweater866]

Theres a thing somewhere where i think its in the Help section that says "Report A Deceased User" and when you do that their profile switches to maximum security so only their friends can see their profile, I don't think you can actually get it deleted unless people report it :/ x

[jkrrv]

It's called memorializing. You (or preferably someone fairly close) reports to Facebook that he's dead. Facebook tries to contact them. If they don't get a response, they "memorialize" it, to preserve the memories of the person.

You can report a deceased person's profile here:
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php...m=deceased

[Amber Farnsworth]

Leave it! So people can see the love his loved ones have left on his wall. I'm extremely sorry for your lost. God bless him, he's in a better place

[Chad Sahilan]

You see, there's a microchip in everyone's brain that when they die, it activates and deletes all accounts of anything and everything off the Internet. Only government and political records are kept alive.

Everyone's planted with one at birth.