Micro-blogger's accounts of the dead inspire the living

Lin Dongping's micro blog posts remind us to live every day as if it were our last.

Lin's series of short obituaries about ordinary people, which he runs under a title from the Confucian lament "how time flies", have been widely followed on Sina Weibo, China's answer to Twitter. He currently has nearly 800,000 followers.

Lin started the page in July 2011 when the sudden death of a former Ifeng.com editor reminded him that those who would never speak again need attention, too.