These technical and digital—in some sense, virtual—channels transcode the human mind and body of the user into a resource that is more easily harvested over time. 

What happens when the body dies? 

The work of the body is either deleted, or it is memorialized. It is more than a ghost—the materiality of the online persona is starkly rendered as a puppet, which it always was, but now more tragically so because the illusion of access into the mind of puppeteer is gone.