Your digital footprints linger well after death. What are the considerations for these perpetual assets to protect them from misuse? Learn in this episode.
In This Episode:
- 03:00 – Take a Chill Out of Summer with a Boston Cooler
- 08:03 – Our Digital Afterlife – Preparing Your Digital Legacy
- 26:55 – 7 Ways to Die in the Future: Impaled by a Resurrected Wooly Mammoth!
- 29:02 – Outro
Why do we need to concern ourselves with our digital footprints after we die?
This is the 5th episode in the series about the digital afterlife. This week we focus on what you can do to prepare for how your digital assets are used. Ignoring your digital assets can result in the loss of valuable financial and sentimental belongings and even compromise your identity if these assets fall into the wrong hands.
What steps should I take to safeguard my digital assets?
A comprehensive estate plan should include a plan for digital assets to ensure they are managed or distributed according to your wishes. We talk in depth in this episode about the things you need to think about and consider. Also visit our related content and resources.
Related Content:
- S5E17: Digital Assets after Death…What Happens to Your Phone?
- S5E18: How to be Prepared for the Digital Afterlife
- S4E49: How to Preserve a Life through Digital Memorials
- S5E13: How Will Leading Causes of Death Change in the Future?
- S4E49: How to Preserve a Life through Digital Memorials
- S4E52: Are You Prepared to Die? Get Ideas for Your Advance Care Planning
- S4E7: Tips for Cleaning in the Fall of Our Lives
References:
- 7 Ways to Die in the Future: https://futurism.com/7-ways-die-future
- Beaunoyer, E. and M. J. Guitton (2021). “Cyberthanathology: Death and beyond in the digital age.” Computers in Human Behavior 122: 106849.
Resources for Digital Afterlife:
- Our Guest Niki Weiss – Information and Contacts
- My Final Playbook – Website | My Final Playbook – Apple App
- DigitalandStone: https://www.digitalandstone.com/ 310-943-7388. hello@digitalandstone.com
- Your Digital Afterlife: https://www.yourdigitalafterlife.com/
- 7 Steps to Protect Your Digital Assets After Death | Cake Blog | Cake: Create a Free End of Life Plan (joincake.com)
- Digital Afterlife: What It Means & What To Do About It | Cake Blog | Cake: Create a Free End of Life Plan (joincake.com)
- 7 Steps to Protect Your Digital Assets After Death | Cake Blog | Cake: Create a Free End of Life Plan (joincake.com)
- What Happens To My Email Accounts When I Die? | Everplans
- How To Close Online Accounts And Services When Someone Dies | Everplans
- Task: Get Your Passwords Organized | Everplans
- How to add a Legacy Contact for your Apple ID – Apple Support
- Digital Asset Management in Life and Death (actec.org)
Seven Ways to Die in the Future
The publication Futursim published an article titled “7 Ways to Die in the Future”. This week’s predicted cause of death is “Impaled on the tusk of a resurrected woolly mammoth at a futuristic zoo”.
Imagine taking your family to the zoo, centuries from now, and catching a glimpse of a real-life woolly mammoth. Someone reaches too far to pet it (have you seen the Yellowstone bison memes?), and tumbles into the enclosure. How is the elephant-sized creature with 15-foot long tusks going to respond? We don’t recommend finding out!
Recipe of the Week: An “Authentic” Boston Cooler
What is a Boston Cooler? Well, Charlie has a long tale filled with ale…Vernor’s Ginger Ale to be exact according to Atlas Obscura. This traditional Detroit beverage has morphed since the late 1800’s, but in its heyday at soda fountains, ginger ale (sometimes other softdrinks like root beer) was blended with ice cream like a milkshake until smooth. Sound like just the thing you need for late summer cooldown? Give it a try!
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Everyone Dies: and yes, it is normal!
Everyone Dies (and yes, it is normal) is a story about a young boy named Jax who finds something special on the beach where he and his grandpa Pops are enjoying a wonderful day. Pops helps Jax understand that death is a normal part of life. This book provides an age appropriate, non-scary, comfortable way to introduce the important topic of mortality to a preschool child. Its simple explanation will last a lifetime. Autographed copies for sale at: www.everyonediesthebook.com. Also available at Amazon
Mourning Jewelry
We offer a way to memorialize your loved one or treasured pet with a piece of handmade jewelry. When people comment on it and the wearer can say for example “I received this when my mother died” which opens the conversation about this loss. All our jewelry is made with semi-precious stones and beads, vintage beads, and pearls. You can choose between earrings or bracelets and the color family. Learn More
