The Digital Beyond Online Services List

The Digital Beyond maintains this list of online services that are designed to help you plan for your digital afterlife or memorialize loved ones. If your service is not listed here, don’t feel left out. Let us know and we’ll add it to the list.

AssetLock
www.assetlock.net
AssetLock is an online safe deposit box that allows users to upload files, passwords, and instructions to be released to predetermined individuals at their death. The service also allows for email messages and printed letters to be sent. AssetLock determines you have passed by waiting for a certain number of your recipients to log in and certify your passing. Once your death is confirmed your account will be unlocked (after a time delay preset by you).

Bcelebrated
www.bcelebrated.com/
Bcelebrated enables members to create a multi-media website that will become their autobiographical memorial site when the time comes. Members create password-protected private pages for loved ones, record their last wishes, and assign a charity to receive donations on their behalf. The service also sends automated notification emails at the time of a member’s death and provides a list of numbers for those who need to be called.

DataInherit
www.datainherit.com
DataInherit is the Swiss-designed, high security data storage Internet service with built-in data inheritance feature. The site provides a repository for important digital assets with the option to assign beneficiaries to items to ensure their accessibility by family and loved ones in the event of death or incapacity.

Dead Man’s Switch
www.deadmansswitch.net

Death Switch
www.deathswitch.com
Similar to GreatGoodbye.com, this service sends out emails after you die, or at least after it stops hearing from you. You get one email with no attachments for free, or 30 emails with attachments for $19.95 a year.

Entrustet
www.entrustet.com
Entrustet is a secure, organizational tool that brings together people like you, estate planning lawyers and the companies that provide online accounts and memberships. Entrustet allows users to maintain a secure portfolio of online assets, nominate heirs and manage asset distribution and deletion after their passing. Entrustet’s wide range of services allow you to organize and decide what happens to your digital assets, before your loved ones or your executor are faced with the unknowns and complexities of protecting your online legacy.

Estate++
www.estateplusplus.com
Estate++ is a virtual safe deposit box that was developed in response to the need for safe and reliable access to information for planning and emergency purposes. Through natural disaster, theft — even death and incapacity — your information is always available.

GoneToSoon
www.gonetoosoon.org
GoneTooSoon is a not-for-profit organization which enables anyone to create a free online memorial for a relative or friend who has passed away.

if i die
www.ifidie.org/
Similar to many others ifidie.org sends e-mails upon verification of your death by designated “keyholders.” As a safeguard, e-mails are sent to you before messages are delivered, just in case your friends are trying to pull a fast one on you. Unlike many others, ifidie.org is a free service.

GreatGoodbye.com
www.greatgoodbye.com
European based email service starting at $39.00 or $9.95 per year. Users can draft email messages ahead of time to be sent posthumously along with photos, videos, and audio recordings. The service guarantees that your memorial will remain online for 20 years following your death. Requires that you grant a passcode to a friend or relative who will activate the delivery process. Users are given 21 days to cancel sending after the delivery is triggered.

Last Wishes
LastWishes.org.uk
Keep all your contacts, friends, distant relatives and others in-tune with your last messages and last-wishes.

Legacy.com
www.legacy.com
Legacy.com is a site that offers online obituaries, memorial Web sites, and online guest books.

Legacy Locker
www.legacylocker.com
Legacy Locker is the safe and secure way to pass your online accounts to your friends and loved ones. It’s like a digital safety deposit box – you can put all your online accounts (emails, photos, social networks, everything online that requires a login) in it. For every account you store, you can assign a beneficiary, someone to whom you want to entrust your digital assets for the future. Currently running at $29.99 a year or 299.99 for a lifetime subscription.

Lifestrand
lifestrand.net
Lifestrand.net is a social utility for reminiscing and sharing fond memories with people close to you of your dearest moments with parents, relatives or friends, which have departed the earthly realm but still live on in the mind.

Lifestrand is unlike other social networking sites in that it brings together people for purposes of celebrating the lives of those no longer with us, for commemorating people who have touched our lives.

My Last Email
www.mylastemail.com
My lastEmail is a service that sends out a batch of emails after you die.

My Web Will
www.mywebwill.com/
Control accounts, send email, and set status updates after you die.

Online Legacy / Permaite
http://www.online-legacy.com/
http://permasite.net/
A set of sites that store your stories and photos for posterity.

Parting Wishes
www.partingwishes.com/
A full suite of online services to help you organize your affairs ahead of time. Legal services include preparing a Legal Last Will and Testament, Living Will and Power of Attorney. A number of free services are also available including the ability to describe your funeral plan, online memorials and a service that lets you securely store messages ahead of time that are distributed after you pass away.

Remember Well
www.rememberwell.net
RememberWell.net is a not for profit online memorial website for you to share and celebrate the memories of your loved one with family and friends.

VitalLock
VitalLock.com
VitalLock is a secure platform for posthumous delivery of escrowed VITAL (Video Image Text Audio Link) messages to family, heirs and loved ones. It’s the only service we’ve seen that will work with your attorney to ensure that your data is not released without legal verification of your death.

xsen.de
www.xsen.de/
Xsen.de is a European-based service that sends e-mails, stores authentication information and photographs. Survivors inform the service of your death using a private key, which you provide to them. Your death is then verified by their staff by obtaining a death certificate. They operate in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, but intend to expand as they find reliable means of accessing official records in other countries.