Dead Man's Switch...

Well, I think people should say what they need to say while LIVING.

To me this is the ultimate coward/ball-less thing to do, not give the living a chance to respond, whether it's a positive message or negative. But no different from a written will I suppose.

Anyway, ahem, yeah, that might be pretty cool.

:)

I'm afraid I would set one and then forget about it. Like - my exhusbnad getting one that says - honey you are the love of my life.

I'd hate hate hate ro get one of those. I can just see my mortal enemy sending me something just to get the last word.

It's no different than writing a letter to a loved one and leaving it to be found after you're gone. "In the event of my death, please open" sort of a thing. My father has such missives sealed and stashed in his filing cabinet. He updates them every year. He hasn't told my mother or sister about them because they're horrible snoops but he told me where they are so I can bring them out in the event of his death. He told me that along with the letters is a manila envelope detailing all his accounts, how to access them as well as a comprehensive list of all the household re-occurring bills so that nothing gets lost or forgotten about.

This is just a digital, dot.com era version of a very old practice. It's a little sad to think that the last message I'll ever get from my father is written and tucked away for me, but on the other hand, it's very practical... and I'm all about practicality.

oh my gosh I soooo want to do this!! haha!! Do you know for sure if it is legit?

there was an article last night on yahoo stating that some people in Europe (the UK to be exact) had received e-mails from a friend who had died 5 months earlier.

Bob and I were thinking he might have done a future delivery setting on some e-mails!!!

LOVE IT!!

Creepy and cool.

In the "old days" they called this a will. :) Same thing.

I can see myself laughing at this if it happens to somebody else. If it happens to me?... maybe not so much! Anybody who did it to me would have to know me very, very well, and time it so that I would laugh and not cry. Grieving is a very sensitive time.

There was a movie that was made on a premise similar to this.

A husband knew he was going to die and that his wife loved him. He really loved her and wanted to be a comfort to her after he died. So he wrote a series of letters to her that were to be mailed to her after he died. I don't remember the interval between the letters nor do I remember the number of letters. I just remember what a neat, romantic, loving idea I thought it was.

I would do this for my wife and or my kids if I thought she/they would appreciate it.

Good luck to you and yours.

I could totally see my husband doing this to me!

Not really the same situation but similar. Growing up my best friend Tommy was an identical twin. Right after his 29th birthday my mom called to tell me that they had found him dead due to an asthma attack. I came home went to the funeral, had a super hard time about it...(he'd never met his honorary niece as Syd was 7 months old when we lost him)...

Fast forward months a year or so (can't remember exact dates) his brother called my house and left a message on the machine. "Hey Mel I'm in town and wanted to know if you could get together tonight to visit"...OMG...I dropped Syd's bottle on the floor and just freaked out! Sound just like his brother and it took several minutes for me to realize that it was not Tommy!

So I could totally see my husband doing that to me..."hey babe, gotcha"...

Very intriguing! I'm not sure what to think about it yet but I appreciate the heads-up!

Very 'P.S. I Love You'....dang I loved that movie!

~I think it would be very cool!

I think it is interesting but only if the person receiving the email eventually understands about the service. There are going to be people out there who insist that Aunt Ethel isn't actually dead. She can't be, she is sending emails. It isn't nice to mindf*** people who will obsess about it.

I saw the story on Yahoo, too, and checked it out. I think it's a great idea, and told my sister about it, she was less than thrilled to hear of it, lol ; ) To each his own.

But as I told her it's an answer as to how I can leave password and site information for my granddaughter. She's only 10.5, but we have a lot of things we do together and share the same views on and have discussed her carrying on some things...our family tree at Ancestry.com, for one, and this will be a great way to leave her the info she'd need.

As tempting as it would be to mess with someone I won't...yet I think the service is cool.

this is something I could sooooooooooooooooooo see the people in my family doing. We're pretty warped like that too LOL

I could have a lot of fun with something like that LOL Especially since I have this little tendency to forget stuff and be just a little late to stuff.

In fact I plan on my funeral starting just a few minutes late :)

i think it's a sweet idea, and i love your twist on it even more.
cuz basically i just love your twisty, twisty brain.
:)
now i want to go set it up.
along those lines, we lost a family friend a few weeks ago, and i was pretty mopey about it. a few days after he died i got an alert that his blog had been updated. it was just a response that some spammer had posted on one of his entries, but it was so bittersweet to click on the link and go revisit his beautiful writing. he hadn't updated his blog for a while, so it really did feel as if he was giving me a final wave.
:) khairete
S.

Creepy.

If I come back to contact anyone, it's gonna be in ghost form to tuck my kids in or send then messages in their dreams.