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A letter accusing your worst enemy of your murder, to be sent to the media in the event that you stop resetting your dead man’s switch.
A script that deletes all of your online information.
Would you even care if you’re dead anyway? Maybe some far descendant can stumble across my posts and put them in his family history folder.
I don’t like the idea of all my conversations online being right there word for word for my family to see without my ability to give any context .
Theoretically though, if youre already dead, would it even matter? To me, what youre describing would be the same as if, say, your grandkids or whatever descendants ended up finding a photoalbum filled with pics of you and letters you wrote to friends and family and such. There would be no outside context from you but it could still be a nice heirloom for your grandkids/great grandkids to remember you by and learn a bit about what type of person you were.
For the entirety of human existence, people have not been privy to word for word conversations for large swaths of all their friends and family. I’m not sure I’m ready to just accept that new reality.
Meh, I’d be more likely to make a script to upload all my remaining information. Not like I got any accounts anyone could use for any personal gain, I’m more of an internet historian archiving old software and stuff.
If it was never intended to be public, you might screw other living people over in the process. Think: revenge porn.
Yeah, but I just said, I archive software and stuff.
My pecker is too tiny for a bit of data. Or is it?.. 🤔
Yeah and what to do with your online accounts.
… and then reddit undeletes it
Are they doing that with everyone removing their content lately? So much for having control of your user account and persona.
Instructions on how to contact any online acquaintances or communities that should be informed of your death
A direct cremation plan. And instructions to not have your ashes interred in a graveyard or funeral home. It’ll save your loved ones thousands of dollars, and save them from being exploited by the multi-billion dollar funeral industry.
hold on explain in more detail what should be done
Okay, so:
Direct cremation is a very specific thing that morticians are obligated to provide, at risk of losing their license if they refuse. It costs less than a thousand bucks (but usually a lot less), and they don’t make a lot of money off of it. So, they’re unlikely to offer that service unless you use those specific words: DIRECT CREMATION.
What that means is your body is cremated, and your loved ones get your remains back in a plastic bag in a box. They can spread your ashes wherever you want. Or flush you down the toilet. But they probably shouldn’t do that, because there’s bits of bone in there and that would be really awkward to explain to a plumber. But you get the idea.
Funeral directors will attempt to take advantage of your family’s grief to upsell them on virtually everything imaginable. I mean, you loved X, didn’t you? Don’t they deserve the best? They’re monsters. When my brother died our parents were ready to hand over $15,000 to those ghouls for nothing. I intervened, and the same service they wanted was possible for around $800.
Fuck funeral homes.
weird how no one mentioned anything to do with your organs (i actuakly have no idea what to do with them either rofl what does one do)
I’m donating mine. If any end up still usable.
I don’t plan to die with any of my organs in a usable state. I won the genetic lottery, I earned my organs fair and square. I earned it, I’m going to use every square inch of it.
EDIT: /s
Depends on the organ. No one is going to want my lungs or liver, but depending on how and when I die I could see my eyes still being useful for example.
If you’re in the US and have a license they’re supposed to ask you to sign up to be an organ donor. Do that and let doctors decide what’s best instead of bequeathing a kidney to your cousin George.
But what about my bronzed kidney displays holding the kidneys of my ancestors for hundreds of years?
According to someone I met recently who shared way too much – a will. Apparently her husband passed away unexpectedly and it has been a nightmare getting everything sorted.
get your will in check too!
a towel. every hitchhiker should carry a towel with them.
A parachute.
And a condom. Don’t forget the condom. They double as water transportation bags.
And colostomy bags
Filled with Ramen right? Right?..
Personally i dont care, really.
When i die im dead, so i will stop giving fucks.
I dont care what happens to my body
I dont care what happens to my stuff
Just make sure im dead
If you have dependants, then they certainly care if your affairs are in order, or not. Dealing with the aftermath of a death is not trivial when it comes to number of hoops to jump through.
Not even just dependents but even friends and other family. I recently saw someone go through being an executor of a friend’s will, and that will was relatively in order, and it still took over a year to wind everything up.
Preparing for death is more about relieving the anxieties of your life. Preparing for death can help to lessen anxiety about dying.
You line of succession, lest you leave the kingdom vulnerable to imposters and agents of chaos.
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You can actually get that back with a bit of luck:
If you’re one of the plebes still on facebook, you should designate someone to inherit your account. There’s a setting for it. Otherwise, if someone memorializes your page, they won’t be able to make any changes, like update photos.
Clean underwear
Make sure you add a statement of wishes to your will, especially look into your digital legacy. My will was straightforward but my statement of wishes was lengthy and the poor lawyer had never had to deal with anything like it before so had to consult a senior partner. In the end they just copy and pasted it over - money for old rope.
can you elaborate on what your wishes were and why
It’s quite lengthy.
It covers my digital legacy so gives the password to my password manager and a list of key accounts that need shuttering, especially my Wikipedia admin account.
Then various classes of items to different places - academic books to the university library, others to specialist collections, general fiction off to one person, comics to another and on.
If it’s something you are interested in, you should read around on the subject as various guides give you examples that may be closer to your circumstances.
can you dm me your will id like to use it for reference you seem to very knowledgable
I’ve rather not as there’s a tonne of personal information in there and little that would necessarily be relevant to you.
My best advice to anyone is search for “statement of wishes” and then “digital legacy” and that will get you the guides I used. I can’t claim to have any greater knowledge and experience than they provided, just enough to befuddle a junior lawyer.
could you censor stuff
It would make no sense and I doubt it’d be of much use to you. You are better off following the guides - I did nothing clever or innovative other than read and follow them.
