Imagine a future where your great, great grandchildren are gathered around a room flicking through web pages projected into the air. They’ve probably got holograms of their favourite artists playing in the background as they pore over your social media history, trying to piece together who their great, great […]
Credit: CC0 Public Domain From live-streaming funerals to online memorial pages and even chat-bots that use people’s social media footprints’ to act as online ghosts, the digital afterlife industry (DAI) has become big business. Our internet activity, commonly referred to as digital remains, lives on long after we die. […]
Michele Flanigan doesn’t sound like a necromancer on the phone. She laughs easily, and many of her sentences rise in pitch like open-ended questions—quirks I would not have expected in a confessed raiser of the dead. Before she took her current job as office manager at Lakeview Cemetery in […]
(Source: KAIT) (KAIT/NBC) – As our financial and social lives go digital, it’s becoming more important to think about how loved ones can access accounts in the event that the original user can’t. According to experts, the first step is taking inventory. Then set a time to review regularly. […]
You may have great estate planning documents. You may have discussed them with your family . You may have even inventoried your digital assets and feel that your job is done. But your estate plan may still be missing one BIG thing: a “letter of instruction.” Do your representatives […]