[christina97]

I sometimes think about a “dead man service”: you leave instructions (that you upload to the service), then when you pass away/etc, the service operators go and follow your instructions and do whatever you asked for. You’d pay some pre-agreed sum, possibly annuity-type subscription, and at the end we go and follow your wishes. Basically a technically competent will executor. It’s probably too much to expect your family to know how to operate your systems. Maybe you encrypt the instructions and give fractional keys to family etc.

[lancesells]

This is an attorney. No subscription, no tech, no bugs, no encryption, less hackable.

[mhink]

> Basically a technically competent will executor.

I don't think OP is saying that an attorney *can't* get these things done, but that it would make them feel more comfortable knowing that a technically competent person and/or service will be performing the actual actions.

I do think there's a place for an attorney here, in the sense that they could be the trusted individual responsible for notifying DeadManService, Inc. that a particular person has, indeed, passed on and wishes DeadManService to run their instructions.

[ufmace]

I'm not sure what value adding a DeadManService would have then. Probably simpler to just have the attorney's instructions say, "Hire a technical consultant to carry out the following:".

[INTPenis]

I've thought about this too but I think the type of business best suited to execute this is a law firm, or you know, the normal executor of people's wills. They just need the IT bit.