Almost everyone these days is an active Facebook user who checks his account multiple times a day, but what happens after a member of the social networking site passes away? One U.S. Congressman is trying to pass a bill to settle this issue.

Peter Sullivan, a Democrat from Manchester, has introduced a bill that will allow for an executor to take control of a deceased users Facebook page, with the right to deactivate the account or turn it into a memoriam. Currently when a user dies, the family can request for the account to be memorialized, but Facebook will not give out account details.

According to ABC News, Sullivan is quoted as saying, "This would give the families a sense of closure, a sense of peace. It would help prevent this form of bullying that continues even after someone dies and nobody is really harmed by it."

The bullying that Sullivan is referencing has occurred in many cases after a person has passed away. A famous case that Sullivan referenced was one of a teenage girl in Canada who committed suicide after being bullied, but the bullying didn't stop, even after her death. Sullivan told WMUR, ""The family wasn't able to do anything. They couldn't go in and delete those comments, and they couldn't take the page down completely."

Facebook has grown to the point where a bill like this is highly relevant. The social networking site that was launched in 2004 now has over a billion active users. With so many active users, deaths are going to be a common case.

Just being able to turn request a loved one's page be turned into a memoriam isn't enough. When someone passes away, his loved one's need closure. With this bill, those close to the person will have the right able to deactivate the account or turn it into a memoriam in their own time. They will not have to go through the entire request process with only memoriam as an option.