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Send Emails After Your Death

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the packets-from-beyond-the-grave dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "As you all know, the two things in life you can't avoid are taxes and death. But if you will no longer have to pay taxes after your death, you will be able to send email thanks to a new service, Mylastemail.com. The Los Angeles Times (free registration needed) says this service will cost you $9.99 for a three-year subscription. The company says you can update your farewell messages from anywhere in the world, including cybercafes or airports." If it's not a hoax, it's a pretty cool service.

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  1. No need. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I already have a list of people to send email to about my death in my will. It will be executed for free.

  2. Cool! by ucblockhead · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This is awesome! Now I don't have to go through all the rigamoral of finding a friend to hold snailmail evidence when I blackmail someone. Now I can just say "and if you kill me, the information will automatically be emailed to the New York Times".

    --
    The cake is a pie
  3. already thought of this by muyuubyou · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have little to no contact with my family. I hate writing home. Including e-mails.

    Sometimes when I travel I think about my death - I have little social life. My girlfriend doesn't know shit about my family and background.

    Several times I've thought of setting up a cron job so if I don't deactivate it in a couple of days, it would notify my direct relatives about my death. Not the best thing to think about when you're about to enter a plane.

  4. Re:No thanks by JordanH · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Oh great! Now, we can expect to see SPAM with nothing but a URL in the body which points to the real message with dead people's names in the Subject:

    Spammers will start harvesting on-line obits, take all the names in the obit message of family, friends, pall-bearers and check if they have names similar in their databases and use this to try to get under SPAM filters.

    Uhh... I need to take some time off, I'm starting to think like some sick spammer.