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Saturday, January 7, 2012

How to handle your online existence after death?

Death is a reality of life which cannot be denied. Physical beings end but their digital lives remain alive until somebody takes charge. People have started thinking how to end their digital assets when they are gone. Here are a few services which are created on these lines. 


Entrust is a site where you can create your account to decide your digital legacy. You can create your account and then add your email accounts, social media accounts like Twitter, Facebook etc., blogs, photo accounts, internet banking information etc. and then assign each account a digital executor. You can even add your lawyer to this account. You also have a choice to get your account deleted if you don't want to assign it to anyone.




Legacy Locker is another site which provides you a similar service in which you have to set up a beneficiary of your online assets  and you can also feed your legacy letters which will be automatically sent as farewell messages. 


Deathswitch is a service that periodically prompts the account holder to provide a pre-determined password to ensure they’re still alive. If that person doesn’t enter a password on multiple occasions for a period of time, it deduces that the person is either dead or critically injured and begins sending out personalized pre-written messages to chosen contacts. The service can be used in many ways, but according to the site, some of the more common uses include sending passwords, financial information, final wishes, last words, love notes, and funeral instructions.
Maybe all you want is to send emails to your loved ones greatgoodbye.com  provides you with this service.


Assetlock is a service that at focuses on mass storage of important information that may be crucial for others to know after a death, including information on financials, estate planning, insurance policies account passwords, e-mails and final wishes and directives. It has the capacity to store letters to be sent after a death, as well.

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