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Interesting project! I had a similar idea- "My Social Death". When you died, it would post to your Facebook, Twitter, etc. Thought of it when a few friends died

Interesting project! I had a similar idea- "My Social Death". When you died, it would post to your Facebook, Twitter, etc. Thought of it when a few friends died and I saw many others changing their profile pictures and continuing to bring up how close they were. People grieve in their own way but it rubbed me the wrong way and I started thinking of how you could control the message when you died. I would love to post a "I had a good life, don't be sad for me" type of message. But verifying death is certainly tricky... My verification idea was the self emails, but also a few friends would have to verify (or they could initiate). That way if you lost access to your email, you could avoid a false positive.

droopyEyelids 10y ago
I love this idea. First, your point about controlling the message when you pass is TERRIFIC. How many of us have seen opportunistic acquaintances take over the memorial of a dead loved one. It really, really sucks, especially when the acquaintance colors everything through their own beliefs, and those beliefs contradict the beliefs/opinions of the deceased. Then you gotta think about the potential to send individualized messages to your loved ones. Damn that would be touching. Plus, what about stuff like Mark Twain's journals. Supposedly he had written much that he feared to publish because it was too incendiary. He thought it'd be ok for it to be published after his death. However his estate chose to keep it private. Next you can imagine the fun you could have planning your account to 'haunt' people you didn't want to say nice stuff to. Good shit