Within a day of the death of Matthew Sachman, 19, on New York City subway tracks, so-called obituary pirates had flooded search results with false information. Credit...Natalie Keyssar for The New ...

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Jane White Thompson died in August. A blood clot traveled from her leg into her lungs, and in a flash, she was gone. “It was very quick and very unexpected,” says her husband, Joel Thompson, who is 62 ...