Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 17, 2013 @06:41AM from the failing-at-a-last-request dept.

New submitter digitalFlack writes "Apparently Martin Manley has been a popular blogger and newspaper journalist for many years. For his own reasons, no indication of illness, he decided sixty years on this planet was enough. He designed a 40-page website with sections such as: 'Why Suicide?' and 'Why Age 60?.' Martin planned his suicide meticulously, but to manage his legacy, he picked Yahoo. He even pre-paid for five years. After he left this mortal coil on his 60th birthday, Yahoo decided they don't want his traffic, so they took the site down. Sorry, Martin."

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They didn't know he also... by sinij · 2013-08-17 06:46 · Score: 5, Interesting

Yahoo didn't know he also prepaid lawyers. Or at least lets hope so.

Yahoo has contractual obligation to provide service, sudden death of a party is a sleazy way to weasel out of a service contract.