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Tuesday, December 05, 2006
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Day 5
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Dear (fill in the blank),"If you are reading this, then I'm probably dead..."
Let's get Morbid!
Awesome!
No, really. I was looking at the topic today and I was feeling "meh" about it because I tend to avoid shopping malls anyways.
Then I came across an ad for this site. It's a site that tells people that you are dead or critically disabled after a certain amount of non-response from automatically-generated prompts that you set.
Woooah. Now that's awesome! I've often wondered what would happen to the people I know from the Intarweb (tm TranceJen) if something were to happen to me. Would they simply assume I decided to set up my own commune in northern Alaska shovelling snow and knitting sweaters for the general population up there? Probably.
But now? Now I don't have to worry! I have death switch.com to notify those people of my untimely demise, and other people of any other information I'd like them to have!
There's some forward thinking for you. I mean, really it is quite practical. Where does all the e-info go once someone passes along? I have a guess that these sites will become more and more popular as the digitally-connected people age and head towards death.
I don't know how to feel about this website mostly. Do I laugh? Am I bemused? Am I awed by the originality of the idea? Why yes, probably all of the above. Because I'd love to use it. As someone who has my own funeral planned out pretty much exactly, (cremation, spread ashes in a few specific places that I have designated, and all purple flowers, please.) I'd like to know that I won't leave people who wouldn't have ways of knowing better, simply hanging without an explanation as to my whereabouts.
So, there you have it. My pick for the oddly useful yet stunningly morbid site of the day. |
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posted by purplefishy
4:43 PM
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