Email Me After You’re Gone
The after-you're-gone dot-com market is growing. Here are four web sites worth your consideration.
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The year is 2059 and you've been deceased for a very long time. Your favorite granddaughter, now a mature woman with grandchildren of her own, is surprised to see an email from you in her inbox. She opens it and finds some amazing words of advice and insights from the grandfather she has missed for so long.
How could this be? Welcome to letterfrombeyond.com, the website where you can posthumously email friends, family, or perhaps even someone you never liked very much. This is just one of several sites springing up where you can create emails or even securely store information such as wills, lock combinations, or passwords to be delivered to designated recipients upon your death or on specific dates in the future.
Assetlock.net, which uses the same encryption method as the National Security Agency, serves as an electronic safe deposit box where you can store all kinds of private documents. Designated survivors are notified about how to access this information and told not to do this until you die. If they attempt to get an advance peek, an email automatically goes out to all involved to make sure you are truly dead.
In case you're worried you won't get a proper obituary, you can write your own in advance at obitnow.com. Once the sad news of your demise comes, a friend or relative can notify the website to release your obituary to newspapers, websites, and other media outlets worldwide along with your favorite photograph.
If you fear some of your friends or relatives live too far away to make it to your funeral, online-funeral.com will provide live online viewing of your body while it lies at the funeral home, a video of your funeral service, a photo album, and a message board. Just think-your cousin Henrietta who moved to Botswana will be able to fully participate along with more nearby relatives.
We suspect this is only the beginning as hundreds more websites are created to cash in on the after-you're-gone dot-com market.
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