Posted on: 24-12-04 13:55:23
An interesting issue that our forefathers never faced! 
. Since life has moved online quite a bit after the introduction of the WWW, who inherits your online stuff (like email, blogs etc etc) after you pass away?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/ptech/12/24/e.mailafterlife.ap/index.html
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I have bequeathed everything (lot of crap) to another forum that I am on almost always. Its posted there. So no one person but to the public at large on that forum.
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Orginally posted by mercury6
I have bequeathed everything (lot of crap) to another forum that I am on almost always.
Lucky descendents you have!
The question though is should Yahoo give parents access to their son's email as requested by the Dad in the article?
I say yes. The loss of a child is a grave one and parents are always looking for any fragment of memory they can lay their hands on. I'm sure this would mean a lot to them.
The flip side is the son may not have wanted it to happen. The net allows people to assume alternate identities that they may not want others to know about, maybe not even parents. The release of all email may expose a side of someone's personna that they'd like to keep private.
Maybe a mid-way solution would be to ask a question regarding this when you sign up for an email address. I know it'd be wierd getting a question like "Who would you like to inherit your mail when you die?" while signing up for hotmail, but hey, at least you get to make the choice.
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There are other privacy related issues involving third parties as well. For example, if send X an email, I may not want X's parents / survivors to read that email in the event of his / her death or incapacity!
I wonder how that would be addressed if access to the emails of a deceased / incapacitated person is allowed.....
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Orginally posted by crenshaw
There are other privacy related issues involving third parties as well. For example, if send X an email, I may not want X's parents / survivors to read that email in the event of his / her death or incapacity!
I wonder how that would be addressed if access to the emails of a deceased / incapacitated person is allowed.....
True. But how did this work with letter correspondence? If someone in your family passed away, you do have access to all their letters. In principle, this is the same thing, isn't it?
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