If you have the authority to act on behalf of a deceased member, you’ll need the following information to submit your request:

• Member's full name
• LinkedIn profile link/URL
• Your relationship
• Deceased member's email address
• Date of their passing
• Link to an obituary or relevant news article

Approved legal documents include:

• Letters of Administration issued by a court
• Letters of Testamentary issued by a court
• Letters of Representation issued by a court
• Other court order appointing the requestor as an authorized representative for the deceased member’s estate

Unapproved legal documents include:

• Birth certificates, marriage certificates, social security cards, driver’s licenses, passports, or other identity documents of the deceased
• Wills, trusts, or power of attorney documents
• Email authorizations
• Unsigned documents
• Screenshots (such as shots of a deceased member’s social media plan expressing wishes after he or she passes)
• Legal contracts
• Other informal documents
  

Gather the required information and documentation needed, then contact us to submit your request. We’ll review it and memorialize the profile.

Gather the required information and documentation needed, then contact us to submit your request. We’ll review it and close the account. After the account is marked as closed, it can take up to 30 days to completely delete the data from our system, as further specified in Section 4.3 of our Privacy Policy.

No, once we’ve confirmed the death of the person, access to the account is locked. It’s against our policy to allow others to sign in to another member’s account.

After an account is memorialized:

Within 48 hours we’ll terminate:

While you can continue to engage with the posts, articles, and other content created by a memorialized account, you can’t engage directly with the profile. The following actions are hidden from the deceased member’s page:

To maintain the person’s legacy on LinkedIn, the following profile information is retained: