Be Excellent To Each Other

So, I was just looking at a profile page of a friend's dad, who died a few months ago.

Apart from messages on his wall, there's nothing to suggest he's dead. Newer wall messages inviting him out for drinks and such have pushed the older ones down.

Does Facebook have an "I'm dead" button? How do you think they (or the families) should deal with it?

There is a process that turns the page into a memorial page I believe. I'll see if I can find the link

Perhaps in this frightening age of social media, people should start to include instructions in their wills informing the executors what they would like to do with their social media guff.

I have a letter that Mrs Grim... gets to read with all my passwords in, which will be fun for her.

Relatedly, I've often wondered if I should hide a sealed document with all my passwords on it and give the location in my will (or to my pron-buddy, who has certain other duties) so key emails etc can be safely archived for future biographers to use.

I have a briefcase nuke wired to a heartrate monitor.

You must be confident of battery life.

A little script that would poke people from beyond the grave might be quite fun.

"WOOOOOOOO! WOOOOOO!"

This exists. It's called a digital will.

When Danielle went into hospital last year, she put her 1Password master password into my 1Password, and vice versa.

I keep thinking that I need to make arrangements after my passing. I mean, who will take my precious monkeys to be baptised?


Seriously.. I need to do a will first and foremost but as for my digital stuff, a couple of friends know my passwords so I think I'd be covered there but you make a good point. Maybe I should keep a letter somewhere like Grim...?

I should really fix my will so my stuff doesn't go to my ex.

The problem with companies like facebook doing stuff about dead people on their sites, is the possibility of abuse. How do they prove that the person is really dead? They can't ask them.
I would totally tell facebook that Grim... was dead on a weekly basis, for example.

They'd ignore you unless I'd marked you as a member of my immediate family.

Sounds dirty.

Sadly, it wasn't. Just profoundly stressful.

When I get around to it, I reckon I'll record some videos to supplement the instructions in my will and give copies to my executors. It's one thing to know the wishes of a person dispassionately put down on paper, but it's quite another to say 'My brother gets my PC, because mine is awesome and yours sucks balls, you console fag'.

Haven't gotten around to it yet because I rarely anticipate dying any time soon. Really must though.

I read that as 'executors'

edit: which is what it says

But my mind read 'executioners'

My mispronunciation of executors caused some amusement in my probate class, for sure.

How long do you have to wait after the funeral before it's acceptable to defriend the dearly-departed from sinister Facebook?

Defriending doesn't help in the least, trust me. You then just get friend recommendations.

My Dad spends a lot of time moving his money between accounts for better rates etc

He also won't have any more that 50K in an account as thats the ammount the goverment will pay if a bank goes under.

My mum made me promise that if he dies before her I will help her with all the online accounts he has as she has no idea what to do!