With access to a person's email, you could set up a "send once death message". My wife and I were discussing this topic (she's a lawyer so digital rights are part of her interests) and she said that part of the electronic valut contents could be a final message to people who are part of the electronic community. A few years ago, a very good friend of mine died -- she had been a friend for about 30 years and we had kept in touch by email and occasional double dates with our spouses. Her husband was a great guy and we hit it off, but I was on his wife's email and not on his and I found out later that I had been sending her messages after her death because he didn't even think about turning off her email in his grief. After awhile, I did a search when my emails were not answered and discovered her obituary. She had a sudden and fatal re-occurrence of cancer and her business email was left running until after her death.
I think that I will draft a message now - something about how I have died and any responses may take an infinite amount of time :-). Chauncey On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:46 AM, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another issue -- how to inform people that you are only in contact with > online that you have passed on? A Final Tweet? > > Cheers, > > -- > Martin Polley > Technical writer, interaction designer > +972 52 3864280 > Twitter: martinpolley > <http://capcloud.com/> > > > On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Chauncey Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > >> What are the issues with designing for death? Here are a few: >> >> > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
