We live for planing our final moments at least…
WHY
The most important thing is feeling calm when imagining our moment of death
There is much wisdom to retain about our relationship with the moment of death from «The Tibetan Book of Life and Death». But the Tibetan culture nor any other more modern platforms have developed any easy interactive tool for guiding you to specify a settled plan for your moment of death, burial and with your outstanding responsabilities after that. Such a plan would either help you for your having more calm about it all andor also serve as an inspiration for others. There is a trend called Death cafes, where people gather to share thoughts about their own death while relaxly taking a coffee, which is a step forward in the very important direction of naturalizing death.
After someone dies, there are a lot of worries that are hard to manage for the relatives if the dead person hasn’t specified them, specially when the event comes as a surprise. We do Testaments but we could detail them more. For example: with scheduled actions after reaching certain thresholds, and so on… but we are not used to do it with flexible electronic forms and we still rely in very rigid and formal paperwork from notaries (the few of us that do it).
There was an active community called digitallegacyconference.com and non-free applications like safebeyond, ether9, or deadsocial (in development, but with a lot of documentation) that basically specialized in keeping your data online after you die. One catalan communitty did a step forward and created a communitty service called somprovisionals that deal with some part of the funeral services with a further cooperative-ethico-economical point of view (there are many minimonopolies at funeral services…).
WHAT
Tidy your thoughts about how you want to experience the last moments of your life, and also about what you would like happen after you will die.
Plan your companionship and environtment premortem and your postmortem heritage.
Describe not only a possible environment desired for your death, but several of them.
Schedule as many possible postmortem actions as you wish to be taken.
HOW
Fill a form and never worry about taking such plannings for granted either, they could change and that shouldn’t hurt, they will just give you more different options to face such momment, specially if it comes as a surprise. Don’t fill the form if – when – while you don’t feel so. Publish contradictory death plans if you want it too, you can’t really know how you will feel by then, so never worry too much about the plan happening perfectly by then as you predesigned it before through the form in the app.
Plan some triggers to do certain actions at a whatever post-mortem time to keep your legacy more assured andor just for fun (i.e. i invite a beer to x members after every summer rain, etc.)
See also
DeathDate is a good naming because of “dating” ambivalence. Alternative brandings: DieSafe, Death and Next, etc