Fear no more our mortal friend! With the two services described below, you can send emails to your family, friends, enemies, clan mates, virtual spouses, etc. from the beyond!
DeathSwitch dispatches a set of pre-written emails to assigned contacts following your failure to prove that you're alive. You can choose between a free and a paid subscription. The free subscription allowing a single email to a single contact while the paid enabling 30 emails, with up to 10 recipients for each, and the ability to add file attachments ( .mpg, .wav, .jpg, .pdf, .doc, etc.).
You start by assigning your messages to your contacts, and setting up an email frequency prompt to prove that you're alive. This could be a day, a year, or any duration you think fits your lifestyle. Everytime you respond to a prompt, you have the option of changing the frequency of the next prompt and the number of checks before they send your messages from beyond to the receivers.
SlightlyMorbid is more suited for you if you don't trust yourself with the frequent prompts. This service dispatches emails after a trusted contact goes through the process of dispatching the emails to your pre-assigned sets of contacts. Though it might free you from the constant 'I'm alive!' clicking, the message being sent and the assurance of them being sent successfully depends completely on your trusted contact. They do not support file attachments, the reasoning being they can't guarantee the delivery of the possibly critical messages.
The service charges a one time fee, with varying amounts depending on the number of contacts you want to send the message to. The changes to the contact list are free for the first three years, but any changes after the first three years requires the payment of a nominal fee.
The messages you'd leave behind could be the equivalent of your very own secret black book, well, secret black email in this case. Or maybe, "Wish you were here!" to your ex- or boss? Some might argue that email might be too impersonal a medium to receive such news, but with the internet being used for everything from dating to performing surgeries, a live death update doesn't seem too morbid. Besides, we just can't get over the possibility of getting the last word in on an argument from beyond the grave...
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