What Happens After Your Final ‘Disconnect’ ?
In the age when we leave so many digital footprints that we’re having hard time keeping track of our own steps, you have to ask – what happens when our time is up and we can no longer type or click? I’m talking about dying of course, because what else would get you to disconnect?
As dreary as this subject is, it is a legitimate question. What are you leaving for your posterity? Pissy Facebook updates? Witty outdated Tweets? Constructed online personalities?
Facebook lets you create special „memorial“ profiles which serve as digital tombstones of sorts, in fronto f which families and friends gather to remember their dearly departed, and there are already around 30 million of them. According to XKCD, if Facebook’s still active 2060 the profiles of the departed will outnumber those of the living.
There are many services dealing with the digital afterlife: My Death Space tracks the social network profiles of the deceased, The Digital Beyond takes care of legal and technical issues of managing your accounts after you pass on, and After.Me takes a third approach, using all the benefits of the digital age to take care of the more practical matters.
96% Of People Never Make A Will
If you’re too lazy to engage a lawyer or too frugal to hire one, a procrastinator par excellence, if you think you’re going to live forever or use one of many excuses not to sit down and pen in your final testament, your will, this service will help you do it from your computer.
Don’t feel bad, around 96% people neglects making their will and leaves much to chance and squabbling relatives, but After.Me wants to change that by making it so simple, that procrastinating will put you to shame.
Basically, this web-based service allows you to create your own text or video Will – strong emphasis n the video, as is it ensures that the wishes you have expressed are your own and they are not influences by someone else.
Your Final Hurrah
But it doesn’t stop at that – is there a message you’d like to send after you’re gone? Something you never had the guts to say? Maybe you’d like to drop a few comforting lines, or make an elaborate farewell plan like in PS I love you?
After.Me allows you to create email messages to be sent to people you love or care about (or want to haunt?) after your death.
A cool and more practical than sentimental addition is a digital vault, where you can store your passwords, insurance policies, bank details or anything else you can think of and want to keep in one digital spot.
Don’t worry, your info and will won’t leak before your time’s up – After.Me sends you regular emails every 30 days to make sure you’ll still alive. If you don’t respond to one of them, the system starts a verification process to make sure it’s really the right time to send the emails from your digital afterlife.
Yes, it’s strange, and no one likes to really think about dying and what happens when you’re gone, but maybe you want to make sure you don’t leave any issue unresolved and that you’ve got your final goodbyes covered?
