Send E-Mail After You Die

D.C. NBC 4 ^

[danneskjold]

Or just tell the ones you care about how feel about them while you (and they) are still around...

[July 4th]

Cool idea, just as long as the service isn't like Bob Hope and the Associated Press. I don't know how many times they sent out his obituary before he died.

[So Cal Rocket]

After Death E-mail:

To: Cook County Registrar of Voters
From: Newly Departed
Subject: Voter Registration

I have recently died. Please update your voting records to show the change in my party affiliation from Republican to Democrat, so that I may vote in the next election.

[stainlessbanner]

Who did their market analysis? There is no repeat bidness!

[mrsmith]

Subject: re: I Told You I was Sick

[TheBigB]

TO: all my ex-girlfriends.

Wish you were here.

XOXOXOX,
BigB

[Hank Rearden]

I'm gonna send spam when I die.

What'll they do about it - kick my butt?

[stanz]

Dear relatives:

For all my sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, and cousins who never came to visit me in the hospital or call or even send a card or inquire as to my welfare over the years, please be advised that I have bequeathed my entire estate to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service in your names.

[CFC__VRWC]

I'm gonna send spam when I die.

Arrange to forward all your current spam to loved ones -
"Hi, since I'm dead there's no way these guys are going to make my penis larger, but maybe they can help you!"

[anonymous_user]

How about suicide notes?

[lilylangtree]

Like my mother told me years ago, "if you can't send me flowers while I'm alive, don't send them when I'm dead". If you can't talk to your loved one while you're alive why send them a message after you're dead. You're just making someone else richer.

[Gefreiter]

I don't travel often in my job, but if I'm flying for bidness, ie alone, I write a letter to my wife before I go. I leave it with a friend. If something happens, it gets delivered. If not, I rip it up when I get back and count myself lucky we have some more time together.

A little sappy, maybe, but in my estimation a whole lot less tacky than email.

[Arkie2]

I don't see an issue here. After all, if you're a Democrat you can still vote after you die.

[weegee]

I'm going to avoid making a gratuitous rigor mortis joke.

[Bulldog1967]

The only kind of email I'm sendin' after I croak is SPAM!

[PatrickHenry]

Longie:
If you get this post, it means only one thing ... yes, it means I've hit the big "post" button. It's been nice freeping with you. Carry on.

[CharlotteVRWC]

The last email I sent my Dad was the internet joke going
around "when Bill Gates goes to Heaven" or something like that. He read the email around 10am. Later that day he died unexpectedly. I didn't realize until a week or more later when I was checking some emails sent, that the Bill Gates Joke was the last email he got from me.

[radiohead]

If you can't talk to your loved one while you're alive

I agree, but I think there is another reason to send these messages.

I have a number of rather close online friends. I would like them to know that I'm gone (having had a heart attack scare the other week and winding up in the emergency room, passing on has been preying on my mind lately) in case I 'leave' suddenly.

I've already told my son about what lists I'm on, etc. so he can tell these people that radiohead won't be talking to them anymore.

These people don't have my phone number, etc, there's really no other way to contact them but thru email. I'd like them to know that I'm not ignoring them. : )

[MIchaelTArchangel]

"There is the potential for a lot of damage. Something like an e-mail from a dead person is going to be jarring," said Dr. Eva Ritvo, a psychiatrist.

Someone ought to tell this twit psychiatrist that much of the e-mail many of us receive from the living is quite jarring.