Fin / Head? Same difference, right.

Lets go with simple, because tech can fail.

Put a list in a sealed envelope in your bank safety deposit box and tell them it's there (and if you can't wait for them to get the death certificate, put someone you trust as a key holder). You could save trips by pre-determining them a year in advance, so you only have to go once every 11 or 12 months.

You could make it a little easier to accomplish regularly, by using a fire safe, somewhere in you house.

You could give a piece of the passwords to each of your siblings, so that two or more have to get together.

I've stood on the corner of Portage and Main when it's 40 below ('F or 'C - it don't matter) with a 50km/h North wind coming down Main, and a 40km/h West wind coming down Portage enough times to say I KNOW Canada. Parts of it are 1st world, and parts of it are 3rd world - don't kid yourself.

OB,

A loss of communications can mean only one thing. Invasion!

You're trolling, right? You know that North Dakota has no ocean view.

That depends on whether you consider "Northern Canada" 1st world or not. I'm sure many of it's inhabitants would be happy just living in 2nd world conditions (visit most First Nations Reserves in any part of Canada and experience the 3rd world in North America).

Beside, most of Southern Canada, say bellow the 54th parallel is A.O.K. as far as internet and phone connectivity goes today. Well, except paying through the nose for a Gig of data (wired or wireless) compared to many parts of the world.

I call shenanigans. Given the typical readership of Slashdot, the probability of 1 wife (let alone N wives, where N > 1) is negligible.

Yes... that was in 1990 - 12 years after he started his attacks in 1978

Too True... the US system is about punishment. Many other countries systems are about Corrections (both punishment an rehabilitation)

What's sad about this is that Kaczynski was the subject of what I'll argue were some pretty wicked and unethical psychological experiments when he was in school - long before he ever became a danger to the world. Some have suggested that these experiments pushed him over the edge.

Point your boss at this article by Joel and have him search for "death march": http://www.inc.com/magazine/20071101/how-hard-could-it-be-five-easy-ways-to-fail.html?partner=fogcreek

Suddenly, the Daleks' plungers now make sense.

As a parent of a little girl who didn't live very long, I can tell you. Whatever time she's got is beautiful. Be it a century, a decade, a year, a month, a day, or just a minute.

At the same time, I can empathise with a parent who chooses to withhold care, and allow nature to take its course. Because that's sometimes kinder than the alternative.

Or lost one, premature or otherwise.

I'm so please for the little girl, and yet sad - because she is probably in for a much tougher life than most of her peers.

2005 wants their news back, http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=US&NR=7255627&KC=&FT=E