Is it somehow possible to search Facebook and in return get dead people? In Facebook's help search description it is mentioned that there's possibility to find people by key words – is there any for this type of search?
As my intentions might seem controversial to some, there is a reason for this kind of search: I am interested in how articles like this one gather information for statistics.
This is a complete guess here, but I would think that in the first scenario, Bob would not be able to see the item, but if Bob was friends with John, then he would be able to. There has to be a connection in the social graph between the item and the viewer.
The security/privacy filter should determine of list of people who have direct access to the item, which would only be your friends, then, since it was a F-of-F item, it would look to see if the person viewing has a direct connection to one of those people.
Again, that's just a guess, but I would think if it worked any other way it would be a bug.
https://www.facebook.com/help/335291769884272/:
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Best Answer
No, it is not possible to natively search Facebook for memorialized accounts.
There are ways to programmatically search Facebook users in general as well as see for specific accounts whether memorialization occurred.
However, that's not in the scope of this site.