Most of my immediate family does not read the paper and probably miss out on a lot of memorial services. My mom always seems to now who passed, but she works at the grocery and learns from the grapevine. I’ve lost classmates and learned too long after by running into someone.

Worst story that I have to share is the untimely death of my husband’s best man. Their best line of contact was Skype and playing World of Warcraft together. He and his wife were in Fort Drum and only he kept in distant contact. Communications from Iraq did not occur. My husband heard his Unit mentioned on the news and searched his name on google five days prior to the first anniversary of his death . What a way to learn of losing your buddy.

I suppose that many people of time’s past would not know of my death in a timely manner, if ever. Hopefully, those who really matter are all in close contact with my family.

Maybe you update it every so often along with your will?

So my idea was to have all passwords and instructions, including screen shots, or even screen capture video all stored onto a flash drive, and give it to a trusted person, with instructions not to open unless something major happened to me.

Only problem is, what if you change your passwords for whatever reason.

I was talking to someone earlier this week who said they’d been unable to get into one of their Dad’s accounts after he died.

It really does make you think.

My Mum and Dad read the newspaper every single day, and always inform me of people they think I know that have passed away.

But for people my age, I know they don’t read the newspaper.

The thing that I worry about is that if I myself die unexpectedly, how will people who use technology know that I am no longer around. I have a lot of different passwords for different sites, and not one person knows all of them.

It makes you think.

Some people might talk about your death on Facebook or Twitter, say. But others would only pick up on that if they happened to be reading their FB news feed while it’s still on the front page, or watching Twitter when the tweet was fresh (either that or be very assiduous in reading through older posts).

And lots of people I know don’t hang out online.

My mother still reads the obituary/births/engagements section. But now that I think about it, I’m sortof afraid that I’ll miss something. What about all the people I have met in the last 19 years of my life? Are they okay? Are they still around?