> > > That's what this website is for (see link). If you don't login after a specified time, it sends a previously-written email out to all your friends to say you've died.
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> > That site almost reads like a joke. Are you sure it's for real?
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> > Real or not, I don't feel it's necessary (for me) to sign up for something like that. If I die, my wife will tell you all about it. Or the Scotsman would get wind of my passing, and he'd tell you. One way or another, I don't think I need an internet service to tell my on-line friends that I've kicked the bucket.
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> It seemed serious enough to me when I gave it the glance-over, but maybe that's just because it's a real concern that I have-- no one I know outside the Internet would know who to get in touch with if something did happen to me. I can believe that someone would set up a serious site like that, anyway. If it was a joke, it got me.
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> Mary "I almost put ayako@rinkworks.com as my email address in this reply-- again. Old habits are hard to break." am

I'm pretty sure it's not a joke. I heard mention of a similar site a couple of years ago, and thought it was a pretty good idea. But I've never used such a service for the same reason Maryam said -- too much risk of sending everyone a false alarm. And anyway, Mrs. Iss would probably find a way to let the Rinkish folk know if I'd suddenly gone up the creek, kicked the bucket, shuffled off this mortal coil, run down the curtain, and joined the bleeding choir invisible.

Iss "Sorry squire, I've 'ad a look round the back of the shop, and we're right out of Issies. But I got a slug!" achar