jrobertson
26-07-09, 07:19 AM
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Send messages to people you love after your death!
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technology.timesonline.co.uk - Times Online - 26-Jul-09
After Facebook, the Deathbook (http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6727676.ece)
Roger Waite and Alex Pell
NOW even death is no excuse for missing your wedding anniversary. A new range of internet services allows people to send e-mail greetings to their loved ones from beyond the grave.
The websites are being used to send birthday wishes to friends, congratulations on a graduation and to keep spouses happy. Before they die, users can programme the sites to fire off posthumous e-mails on key dates each year. They can even set up their own internet memorial in advance. It goes live when the website is alerted to a subscriber’s demise.
The websites are part of a growing trend for “digital wills”. Although they are not legally binding, the online wills are designed to ensure that next of kin can gain full access to a dead person’s musings on sites such as Facebook and Hotmail, as well as passwords for internet banking and other e-documents.
Simon Gilligan, 63, from Littleport, Cambridgeshire, has created a digital will on lastmessagesclub.co.uk (http://lastmessagesclub.co.uk/), which launched this month, in tandem with a paper will.
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Send messages to people you love after your death!
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technology.timesonline.co.uk - Times Online - 26-Jul-09
After Facebook, the Deathbook (http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6727676.ece)
Roger Waite and Alex Pell
NOW even death is no excuse for missing your wedding anniversary. A new range of internet services allows people to send e-mail greetings to their loved ones from beyond the grave.
The websites are being used to send birthday wishes to friends, congratulations on a graduation and to keep spouses happy. Before they die, users can programme the sites to fire off posthumous e-mails on key dates each year. They can even set up their own internet memorial in advance. It goes live when the website is alerted to a subscriber’s demise.
The websites are part of a growing trend for “digital wills”. Although they are not legally binding, the online wills are designed to ensure that next of kin can gain full access to a dead person’s musings on sites such as Facebook and Hotmail, as well as passwords for internet banking and other e-documents.
Simon Gilligan, 63, from Littleport, Cambridgeshire, has created a digital will on lastmessagesclub.co.uk (http://lastmessagesclub.co.uk/), which launched this month, in tandem with a paper will.
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