When we die …
March 13, 2010 by mhisham · 7 Comments
What happens when we die? This is a pretty morbid discussion I had with DK yesterday at Starbucks Suntec City while waiting for other friends to arrive to visit the IT Show 2010.
This topic came about when Facebook sent me a reminder that my friend, Kelvin, is having a birthday today.
Kelvin passed away last year. While I will not go into the details of his passing, it was a discussion point for me. DK says there is a function in Facebook to set a person’s account as a dead account but still open to friends as sort of a memorial.
So I did a search on Facebook, and I found this.
Back to DK & me, I said, if I die, there is a hell lot of social networks that I am in to report that I am no longer around. It would help if there is one network that will inform the rest that I am dead, to memorialize me, which is not prone to abuse & misuse.
What will you do? Will you tell someone in advance to help preserve your account (if the social network allows for that kind of thing) or you will leave your account as it is?
[update 18072010] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/technology/18death.html?_r=1 An article on New York Times on how Facebook is managing or try to manage death among its users.
http://mashable.com/2008/01/29/prepare-for-your-death-online-20-helpful-tools/ A list of things you can do when you are still alive.
Haven’t plan yet. Maybe I should start planning…..
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This is a site that you can entrust your passwords too, and once they are informed of your death by your NOK they will then proceed to close everything on your behalf.
I just can’t remember the name at this point of time.
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mhisham reply on March 18th, 2010 9:07 am:
@Bagaholicboy, Humm that would be a good site. Do you think its a paid service?
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Bagaholicboy reply on March 18th, 2010 10:08 am:
@mhisham, Yes I think it is a paid service. Some annual fee thing.
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I don’t really know.
I won’t be around to see it anymore (no, close it).
Then again, it’s nice to be remembered (yes, keep it open).
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mhisham reply on March 21st, 2010 2:09 pm:
@chris, ah the cute triathlon! i think you will be remembered for the athlete you are.
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I’ll probably leave my account as it is.
Life and death is too short to account for.
If I’m worth remembering, somehow I’ll be remembered.
What matters is not after the death.
What matters is the impact While we are still alive.
Hmm… I think I’m preaching to the choir here.
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