Over the years, as my life has become increasingly digital, I've wondered what would happen if I died suddenly. Who would suddenly get no answer to an email or an IM? I mean, I know who those people are, but very few other people in my life do. Would they (or could they) access my accounts, and notify the people I stay in contact with?
The answer to that is probably "no". Think about it yourself. How many people would you be giving the cosmic dial-tone to if you passed?
I don't have the answer, short of updating my will to include all my online friends' contact information. I wonder if there's some way to escrow that sort of information...a single place to aggregate all of my contacts, that I could "permalink" (as it were) in my will? Am I six years too late with this sort of existential navel-gazing? Some research may be in order.
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