Digital Estate Planning

Dying has always sucked. But it just keeps getting messier. Today when we die, we’re not just leaving behind a fridge full of decade’s old salad dressing and unused exercise equipment for our loved ones to dump. Instead, a lot of our “keeper” stuff lives behind password-protected gates. …

As we continue to produce vast amounts of digital data, most people have never planned for how that data will exist after they are long gone. Lack of this planning may seem like a personal decision, but it can have major implications for our families and friends. …

If you haven’t already, read part 1 before continuing on and consider reading the entire series before getting started yourself, as I believe having an understanding of the whole process will help make things easier. …

Preface First, I recognize that if you’re reading this, you have likely lost someone near to you, and my heart goes out to you. Please know that these things can wait and they do not have to be done immediately. Most often, you may find that the thing preventing you from…

Give Yourself an Ounce of Peace of Mind With any luck, we will soon get rid of the habit of declaring the pivotal part of worst case scenario planning is this: Leave a list of all your internet accounts and passwords for your loved ones to find when you die. …

Last week Google announced Inactive Account Manager, a way to decide what happens to your Google accounts when you die. Google is the first major company to create a viable, real service to actually help their users plan for their death. …