Planning guide suggestion

[deansaxe]

          There is a whole forward-looking aspect that can be included here as relates to how someone wants their "personhood" preserved and/or their content used posthumously. To me it's the extension or inverse of the living will.  

Thinking - reanimation, use of content to fuel grief bots, etc. The law hasn't really caught up here but the more we can encourage people to try to envision what they protected as relates to their identity and legacy, the better. Elders right now won't have as much to say, but anyone middle age and younger at minimum should be considering this.

Originally posted by @mdes206 in #30 (comment)

[gffletch]

I agree with this and it would be great if there was greater awareness to create such a document. The only think I can relate it to is that I believe the Pope can just whether his personal journals are burned or preserved when he passes. The problem with the "Digital Estate" is that it is some much more nebulous and fuzzy in it's definition. For instance, I want family images only available to family but nature images can be shared with the world. What should happen to my smugmug site and how is it payed for? domain names tied to important emails (you can maintain the domain for purposes of receiving emails but you may NOT use the domain name for any other purpose)?

Just as most people when constructing a will don't name every item owned and what should happen with it, I suspect it's even harder and more mind twisting to try and do that with digital assets. So we tend to just say... let the remaining living people figure it out :) I don't have any answers here.