Not Life After Death -- Email After Death 312
Rick Zeman writes "Wanna send that one last email after you're dead and gone? CNN has an article about a service that will give the 21st century equivalent to a old-fashioned note in a drawer except that this could be more targeted '...by offering people the chance to write one last e-mail, complete with video clip or photo attachments, and send it to loved ones, friends or even enemies after the person who wrote it is dead.'"
Mine is going to read... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Mine is going to read... (Score:4, Informative)
mine's gonna read (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:mine's gonna read (Score:5, Funny)
It's A Dupe (Score:4, Informative)
And no, I don't go checking for these things. I have a good memory.
Yes, it's a dupe, MOD PARENT UP (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Mine is going to read... (Score:2, Interesting)
And mine would say... (Score:5, Funny)
Or, as Spike Milligan requested for his epitaph. (Score:2)
o.b. Python (Score:5, Funny)
Galahad : Maybe he was dictating?
King Arthur : Oh Shut up.
King Arthur : Well does it say anything else?
Brother Maynard : No, just 'Aaaaauuuugggghhh'
[knights making groaning sounds]
Sir Bedevere : Do you think he could have mean, 'Camaaaauuuuggghhhh'?
Galahad : Where's that?
Sir Bedevere : France I think.
Sir Lancelot : Isn't there a Saint 'Iiiiivvvveeeesss' in Condor?
King Arthur : No that's Saint 'Ives'
Sir Bedevere : Whooooouuuuaaa!
Sir Lancelot : No it's 'Aaaaauuuugggghhhh' from the back of the throat.
Sir Bedevere : No I mean, 'Whoooouuuuaaa!' as in surprise and alarm.
Sir Lancelot : Oh you mean like, 'Auuuuhhhhh!'
Sir Bedevere : Yes that's it. Auuuuuhhhhhaaa!
Sir Lancelot : Auuuuhhhhhaaa!
Brother Maynard : It's the legendary black beast of Aaaaauuuugghhhh!
King Arthur : Run Away! RUN AWAY!
Sir Lancelot : RUN AWAY!
Quote of the Day (Score:5, Insightful)
Jesus. These people deserve to get bilked out of their money.
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Re:Quote of the Day (Score:2)
Re:Mine is going to read... (Score:5, Funny)
He guys,
if you got this Mail I have left the country. They will properly tell you about my dead, but I tell you now: I AM NOT! It's just a trick to escape the IRS...
Imaging, I would be like Elvis, every time someone is talking about my dead someone will deny it...
Re:Mine is going to read... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Mine is going to read... (Score:3, Funny)
So the whole Nigerian thing worked out for you?
Re:Mine is going to read... (Score:5, Funny)
A week (Score:2, Funny)
I smell spam from the grave (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I smell spam from the grave (Score:5, Informative)
I smell spam from the grave
What a coincidence! I smell a dupe [slashdot.org] from the past!
Well, to be fair to the Slashdot editors, it's not *really* a dupe - this service is offered by a different company. But how different and original can you get with posthumous email services?
Re:I smell spam from the grave (Score:2)
Re:I smell spam from the grave (Score:4, Funny)
Re : Dupe (Score:5, Funny)
Actually I smeel WORMS/Viruses (Score:3, Interesting)
Spam! (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Spam! (Score:4, Interesting)
People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:4, Insightful)
People can often go through many email addresses in the time it takes a company to collapse.
Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:5, Interesting)
Furthermore, the people you want to send that last e-mail to might change addresses even while you're incapacitated for the last few years of your life. I think the old letter in a drawer might be the better answer.
However, what if this company, instead of trying to send out an e-mail, instead stores a web page with your final message on it. Then you leave the URL of the final page in an envelope in the drawer.
You'd still have the problem of whether the company will stay in business longer than you live. If you operate your own web site, you might as well set up the page yourself. You could even keep on a hidden page in an otherwise visible site. Leave the URL in that envelope in your desk drawer. If you're smart, you'll also set up a cron job to periodically wget or curl the page, to ensure that it doesn't accidently get deactivated, or otherwise screwed up.
Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:3, Informative)
I've had five different street addresses in the past seven years -- and still just the one e-mail address...
Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:3, Funny)
For that matter, just send it snail mail now. It'll probably arrive after you're dead anyway.
Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:5, Funny)
Why don't we make a company that text messages the family's cell phones with a URL, which has a form that they have to fill out, which sends them an email with the location of the hand-written note that tells them to refer to the amendment to the will stored in the lawyer's filing cabinet that tells the family members they're not getting any money because they're all too fucking stupid to deserve any?
This service will be popular with the ring tone and Claria/Gator crowd, which means they'll make millions. Eventually, they'll find a way to set up kiosks at Walmart so people can retrieve their loved ones' final words and have them printed on the base of a battery-powered fiber optic color-changing angel with big teardrop eyes and fake feathers glued to the wings.
Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:People tend to last longer than dot-coms. (Score:2)
Profit? (Score:2)
SEL? (Score:3, Informative)
They need to answer a few questions first... (Score:2, Insightful)
afterdeath email (Score:2, Funny)
THAT would be worth getting your offspring into debt for.
Re:afterdeath email (Score:2)
This service will require a one-time fee of $699 and also includes a Linux license from my partner company, SCO. To start the sign up, please reply with your username and password.
Isn't this the same as a statement in a will? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Parent is a robot (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Parent is a robot (Score:4, Funny)
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Looks like (Score:2)
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When I wake up from my cryostasis... (Score:2)
I wonder if my gmail account will be full?
Re:When I wake up from my cryostasis... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cryonics is NOT a big corporate scam... (Score:2, Interesting)
Oops --Cryonics companies ARE NON-profits (Score:2)
also, regarding ice formation. (Score:2)
Besides, even if ice crystals do form, during revival, technologies yet undeveloped should be able to deduce the former brain structure from what is still there.
BTW, cryonics.is paid for by life insurance (Score:2)
Is email more impersonal than hand-written mail? (Score:2, Insightful)
Would your loved ones want to read a "final email" rather than a goodbye letter that was written onto parchment? I don't know.
The video and audio are good ideas, but realistically, that kind of thing was done before with video cameras and cassette tapes. T
or make a fone call.... (Score:2)
email is not very personal.
make room for new Nigerian spam (Score:5, Funny)
It is quite disconcerting to contact you in such a manor however I bring terrible and rewarding news. If you are reading this email than I have in-fact died. I am Mr.Michael Shaw, the son of the former Liberia finance minister (Mr. Emmanuel Shaw) under the past government of Charles Taylor. In my will you have been left a large portion of my property and cash holdings. This totals the sum of 10,000,000 US dollars which is rightfully yours. You are receiving this email because you are the direct descendant of me. This email was sent with advanced software that was able to inform you after my death. Please forward of your back account numbers with routing numbers to me accountant Sir Richard Webber to begin the transfer of funds.
Regards, Mr. Michael Shaw
Re:make room for new Nigerian spam (Score:2)
Dead Mail (Score:2, Funny)
"Insurance..." (Score:2)
Now we can do it via e-mail. Huh. What a century we live in.
Enemies too? (Score:2)
Reminds me of a cartoon that was in Playboy many years ago. A florist delivery guy, whose truck bears the slogan "Say it with Flowers," is delivering a humungous wreath with a banner that says "GO TO HELL."
Ahh, the yocks we got outta that one. We won't see days like those anymore...
Secrets get loose (Score:3, Insightful)
Heard it before (Score:2)
It's just a way for people to exploit the desprate. If you MUST get someone a message old fashion pen and paper is MUCH better then electronic means. Plus if it's a loved one the paper will have your person writing on it and if it's been in your house a long time it'll smell of you too. Which alot of people find reminds them of good times with them.
Remember data does
Re:Heard it before (Score:2)
Life-or-death typos (Score:5, Insightful)
*sigh* (Score:4, Interesting)
another fine use of the internet (Score:2)
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Dear Joe,
I know I'm gone, but I wanted you to know one last thing I love you
___Click here for free VIAGRA___
very much and if you reach a time in this life where you don't know what to do or where to go
__Free vacation to Florida Only $299 Deposit__
remember I am right beside you, near your heart
___Cheap Pharmacy Prescriptions___
Good bye.
___Click here to send a loved on a l
Any difference (Score:2)
Why not a letter after you die (Score:2)
My dear PHB (Score:5, Funny)
Now that I am dead, I can say anything I want without getting fired.
You are a horses ass. No, wait. You are a bleeding hemmoroid of a horses ass. You steal everybody's ideas, you read stupid magazines and then follow every management fad known to man. You don't listen to my warnings and then blame me when the warning comes true.
You hold meetings just so you can be the head cheese, but you say nothing and know nothing of importance.
Further, your kids are ugly and stupid, just like their father. And, a similar email has just told your wife about that affair you had with Lisa.
See ya in hell, Mike the Corpse.
Do you really want to do this? (Score:5, Funny)
Are you sure you don't want to not run the test or are you not sure?
Re:My dear PHB (Score:5, Funny)
You better hope reports of your death have NOT been greatly exaggerated.
- Your Boss
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Re:My dear PHB (Score:2)
My last message (Score:2)
That explains... (Score:5, Funny)
...the email I got from "BSD" this afternoon...
The article forgot the link !!!! (Score:5, Informative)
"strict privacy"? (Score:5, Insightful)
I call "bullshit", how are they going to release the email if they do not have access to its content?
Of course the "Web site" has access.
Re:"strict privacy"? (Score:3, Informative)
A portion of the authentication key is sent to you, and it will be necessary for someone you have entrusted to activate your account after you pass away. The Last Email administrator will not have the ability to access your emails because three pieces of information are required to access the account, your username; password; and your authentication key. You are the only person who ever has access to all of this information.
Not that I really care, but anyway...
Fh
Ahh... yet another place for mistakes (Score:2)
For those interested in freeware... (Score:5, Interesting)
Seen this before... (Score:2)
ISTR thinking that was pretty stupid at the time, but if the idea is being used by other companies, *someone* must be using these services. Though actually, mylastemail.com seems to be down right now, so maybe not. There's a Google cache [216.239.41.104] of it, if you care.
My Beloved Wife (Score:2)
It sure is hot down here
5mb? (Score:2, Informative)
You receive 5 MB of space
http://www.thelastemail.com/plans.aspx (aspx, BLEAH!)
When the webspace prices go down... find a clever way to sell 5MBs at high price.
it would be much cheaper, or even free, to set-up a password-protected website. Then write a script so that the website will be automatically unprotected when you fail for 2 days to send a specially formatted email to a special secret email address.
simple, cheap and creative.
Here is mine... (Score:2)
But I think you did it. I know all about your affair with Jim. I know about your little trysts in bathroom by the auto department in Walmart. I know you wanted to marry him so you've been trying to knock me off. I know about the insurance
You're not my kids (Score:2)
This story would have been better... (Score:2, Funny)
Deadman switch fantasy (Score:2)
Of course, among all the scientists in the audience are a
Reminds me of a Joke: Email from the Afterlife (Score:2, Funny)
the following day. The husband checked into the hotel.
There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an e-mail to his wife.
However, he
If you are receiving this email... (Score:2)
If you are receiving this email, you should be ashamed of yourself. For days, then weeks, then months, then years... I awaited to hear from you, and you never called! Not once. I left messages. I offered you a drink or a dinner here and there. All I wanted was someone to talk to, someone to confide in.
Well my gig's up, and for your lack of concern for my well-being, I have only one thing to offer you for the rest of the miserable days of your human lifetime: if there is an afterlife, re
Dangerous game... (Score:4, Interesting)
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I am gone...but... (Score:3, Funny)
The True Geek Solution (Score:3, Interesting)
. . . again? (Score:4, Informative)
Not Life After Death -- Email After Death [slashdot.org]
On September 25th, 2004 with 194 comments
Send Emails After Your Death [slashdot.org]
On November 15th, 2003 with 271 comments
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
More fun than useful (Score:3, Funny)
Enemies too? hmm.... (Score:3, Funny)
If you are reading this, it is because I am dead. And in a very short while, you will be too... I have arranged for my estate to be liquidated and the proceeds given to someone eminently qualified to kill you. You will know fear, and you will know pain and then you will die.
Finally, a service with common sense. (Score:4, Insightful)
This has bothered me for YEARS. What happens if I die? What happens to my webpages? My online friends? What will happen to the friend that maybe needed my help and didn't know I was gone for good?
In your home they'll know you're gone, but thousands of miles away?
Bravo for this service. I think it's really needed now.
From the article (Score:4, Funny)
For a service that is for after you die, what use is a lifetime subscription! hahahah no I get it, really I do...
Re:It's a dupe... (Score:2)
thank you (Score:3, Interesting)
Personally, I'd rather leave an instruction with a lawyer to send that 'last email' (if I were so inclined). This .dom is likely to pass well before I do.
Re:It's a dupe... (Score:2)
Re:Dead Man's Switch (Score:2)
Re:Chain letter scam (Score:2)