Our Eternal Digital Afterlife
summary
Claims that everyday lives span dozens of accounts backed by hard numbers — 12.5 billion social accounts, 2.3 billion active users (about 5.4 accounts per person) — and shows which tools actually work: Google Inactive Account Manager can delete or route individual Google products after a set inactivity period; LastPass offers a digital-will contact; Yahoo’s Terms of Service mark accounts non‑transferable; many services are only vaults (Planned Departure) or simply send emails. Attempts to build a universal kill switch fail because there are no standards; use Just Delete Me for per‑service deletion steps.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to digital afterlife
- 2:05Personal loss and digital memories
- 7:06Digital presence after death
- 12:58Physical vs digital memorials
- 17:11Services for digital death management
- 23:15Managing online accounts after death
- 26:13AI avatars and digital immortality
- 29:11Designing digital offboarding
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