Send Emails After Your Death

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.

BSD

[grennis]

Quick, somebody sign up BSD, they are going to need this soon.

Anywhere in the world?

[technopinion]

Now, if one could update the messages from the underworld, that might be something worth investing in.

No thanks

[fleener]

What guarantee do I have that the bulk e-mail to my friends and family won't be snagged by spam filters? That would be the final insult.

question ...

[Anonymous Coward]

If they don't send the e-mail, can you sue them from beyond the grave?

Bank account in Nigeria

[wayward_son]

That's a convenient service.

I'll just wait until then to give away the money in my bank account in Nigeria.

First Post Service

[andrewa]

How about a service to get a "First Post" after your death?

My last email:

[(void*)]

So long and thanks for all the fish.

Does this mean...

[devnulljapan]

Let me introduce myself to you.I'm Franka Guei, the former military ruler of ( cote d' Ivoire /ivory coast,).
I was killed on 19/9/2002 with some of my loyalist officers during a cross fire battle between us and government troops in an attempt to seize power through coup de eta in Abidjan on 19/9/2002 .
At the time of my death, I had the sum of Eighteen million united states dollars only(us$18m) which I still want to move out of here with most despatch despite being dead.
This money was deposited by me before I died in a security company for the purpose of using it to fine tune my administration in the invent that he succeed in the fail coup attempt.
Because of the present situation in my country cote d' ivoire, as well as my being dead, my I need a trust worthy foreign partner who can assist me to transfer the money out of South Africa for investment.
Please, I highly need your assistance both in transferring the money to your country and also investing it in a profitable venture with your kind advice ,as I confide in you hoping you will never betray me at last.
I have proposed (30%) percent of the total sum of the money for you as your own commission, so as for you to give us all necessary assistance and protection we may need in your Country. Please treat as highly confidential. All the vital documents covering the deposit of the fund in a security company are with me here and will be used to effect change of ownership in your favour for subsequent transfer to any account you may wish to use abroad.
What I want you to do is to indicate your interest that you will assist us by receiving the money on our behalf. Acknowledge this message, so that I can introduce you to my son (MIKE GUEI) who has the modalities for the claim of the said fund. The identity of the finance company where the fund is deposited, will be revealed to you by my son as soon as we recieve confirmation from you on your willingness to proceed, as seeing is believing.
Reach me through this mail box to discuss modalities on how to proceed.Reply to deadpresidentofsomeafricannation@untraceabledomain .com
Looking forward to hearing from you urgent.

Re:First Post Service

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean "Last Post", right?

URGENT ASSISTANCE REQUIRED

[Masque]

DEAR SIR / MADAM

My name is Masque and I am writing you from the republic of Heaven to beg your indulgence in the matter

I came to your name through careful study of teh intarweb and u are recommmended as a helfpul and trustworthy person who may be trusted to be helpful and I beleive I can be of help to you in return

BEFORE I WAS FORCED AGAINST MY WILL TO COME TO THE AFTERLIFE I HAD AMASSED A SMALL FORTUNE THROUGH THE LEVERAGING OF MASS EMAIL TECHNIQUES. I NEED YOUR HELP IN TRANSITIONING THESE FUNDS BACK INTO MY POSSESSIONS AFTER BEING SO RUSHEDLY FORCED TO LEAVE MY HOME FOR ASYLUM IN THIS AFTERLIFE....

Imagine THAT being hacked!

[arcanumas]

Wow, imagine using a stupid username/password and having someone get in and change the message.

"Dear world. I was a bastard. I am, however, no more. That plane i was in has crashed into a mountain and my remains have yet to be discovered.
The world considers this to be a great tragedy, but those who knew me can say that the loss of the innocents on-board was well worth my demise.
Feel welcome to defecate on my grave
Thank you.
The deceased."
And a goatse.cx follows...

Re:My last email:

[fleener]

What fish? I did not ship you any fish. I don't even like fish. What the hell are you talking about? Are you on drugs? You type like you're smoking crack. But how are you smoking crack and typing at the same time? You must be a speed freak. Damn I hate you tweakers. You come here and work for less than minimum wage and take all our jobs. Go back to New Jersey. We don't want your kind here.

Re:my uncle is a moron

[mcpkaaos]

Anyone else see this coming?

From: MyLastEmail.com, on behalf of the late Uncle Kevin
To: My Loving Nephew
Subject: I'll miss you
Attachment: Road Rules for Drunks.ppt (7MB)

my email..

[gl4ss]

a simple "BOOO!!!!!"

that should stir up something.

Re:Anywhere in the world?

[snarkh]

That service is a $20 option.

This is well regarded

[Lieutenant_Dan]

I haven't RTFA because that would against /. posting policy, but I suspect that they subscribe you a mailing list where you get an e-mail with the subject "Are you dead yet?" every day. If you don't reply after two days they assume you are dead and send the e-mail to your list of contacts and promptly sell the same list for profit to the DMA. Because once you're dead, it's not like you can sue them or anything.

Re:question ...

[lbrt]

If they don't send the e-mail, can you sue them from beyond the grave?

You can try, but I bet they have their own Ghostbusters team ready to remove unsatisfied customers.

My letter....

[Hogwash McFly]

Dear Boss,

Susan pissed in your coffee,
John keyed your Jaguar,
and I was the one fucking your wife!

Have a profitable year,

A faithful employee

3 years?

[mcpkaaos]

$9.99 for a three-year subscription

Isn't that a little pessimistic?

I "anonymous coward" being sound in mind,

[SmackCrackandPot]

I "anonymous coward" of no known IP address, being sound in online connectivity, and over the age of credit card ownership,and knowing the uncertainty of dial-up connections and the certainty of disconnection and wishing to dispose of my possessions and belongings both in the real world and in online gaming communities while in health and strength do make this my will.

After the payment of my credit card debts, store cards and porn subscriptions, I hereby bequeath my slashdot username to be auctioned on E-bay and the proceeds donated to the open source community.

I am NOT sending this from beyond the grave!

[Gudlyf]

Cybercafes and airports, huh? So I guess you're sitting there waiting for your flight and see a shifty character walk by and onto your plane, better get that last email updated. Oh, and don't forget that odd tasting latte when sitting in Starbucks -- might be your last one.

And how long before people start forging a mail's "From:" header to look like it came from this site? Way to make someone's loved ones panic/celebrate unnecessarily.

From: [e-mail]
To: <Undisclosed-Recipients>
Subject: Sorry, I died...

Unfortunately, the reports of my death are not exaggerated. ...

Re:My letter....

[AkaXakA]

Dear Faithfull Employee,

Thought you were the only one dead?

See you on the flipside,

Your Boss.

Re:This is retarded

[RinzeWind]

You just have to e-mail them.

Re:Cool!

[jdreed1024]

Now I can just say "and if you kill me, the information will automatically be emailed to the New York Times"

And they will either plagiarize it and claim it as their own work, or they will respond with "Sorry, you must be registered in order to send us a news item"

Re:3 years?

[Hydrogenoid]

Yeah, make that a lifetime offer!

Re:My letter....

[Prof.Phreak]

Or...

Dear Faithfull Employee,

Who do you think is responsible for your death? :-)

Your Boss.

It is a bit of a scam

[Snaller]

You pay for 3 years??? If you don't die you have to pay again!

voice mail

[harlows_monkeys]

At work once, we had a phone system where you could leave a voice mail for someone for delivery in the future. Until the delivery time came, there would be no indication to the recipient that the message was there. Furthermore, up until the delivery time, you could cancel you pending message.

We moved to a different office and didn't take that phone system with us before I could get around to do ing this, but here is what I wanted to do:

1. Leave a message for my boss (who was also a friend of mine) queued for delivery in three months.

2. Every month, cancel that message and rerecord it, again queued for three months out.

So, if I ever died, 2-3 months after my death, my boss would get a voice mail from me. The message would be suitably creepy, of course.

Re:already thought of this

[harlows_monkeys]

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

If I ever build a house, I'll have a timed thing like that, but not only to notify people of my death--it will also cause my death.

The house computer system will give me challenges periodically, and keep track of how well I respond to them. When the house computer determines that I've gotten senile enough to no longer really be me, it will wait until I'm sleeping, and gas me, wait until it is sure I'm dead (temperature sensors?), and then call the appropriate authorities to report the death.

After this, the robokvorkian program will destroy itself, so that whoever gets the house after me won't have to worry about it.

Re:This is retarded

[andrewa]

I think that you should get an automated email each day:

Are you dead yet?
o Yes
o No

[Submit]

My 1st message: Help!!

[M$Marketing]

I'm not dead yet! Please dig me out.

Re:already thought of this

[Anonymous Coward]

Mod +5 Future Darwin Award Winner

Re:already thought of this

[Chemical]

Why would you want to die when you become senile? That's the prime of life! I'm counting down the days when it'll be okay to sit outside in a lawnchair all day, wearing a straw hat, mumbling to myself about the good ol' days, and telling those damn kids to stay off my lawn. No worries, because you can't remember them anymore!