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by rpedela 4256 days ago
Interesting idea. I think my father might be interested. Every time he flies on a plane (not often), he lets me know where various financial information is and the passwords to get at it.

The pricing seems really strange to me. Wouldn't only messages be sent when someone is dead or severly disabled? A model similar to life insurance makes more sense to me where the customer pays a small amount of money on a yearly basis. And there wouldn't be a free tier except for maybe a trial.

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So your father and also I would be interested. But I really doubt a service like that would last given the current startups scene we have now. It must be rock solid. Fully dependable. It's life-and-death business here. I'd pay a good amount for this kind of solution.
It would need to operate much like "perpetual care" at cemeteries. Fees for the services go into an irrevocable trust that runs much like an endowment -- costs are kept below the ongoing interest income of the account.

As I understand it, these are rather tightly regulated in many states for the same reason you're asking this service to be dependable.

> I'd pay a good amount for this kind of solution.

Use a law firm.