DieSafe

and live safer

In depth

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 helping us specify a settled plan for our moment of death, burial and outstanding responsabilities after that.

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. We are not used to do testaments with flexible electronic forms and we still rely in very rigid and formal paperwork from notaries (the few of us that do it).

Some steps forward

There is a trend called Death cafes, where people gather to share thoughts about their own death while relaxly taking a coffee. 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 and other things to happen after you 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

Premortem: Fill a form and save it for yourself fist. Never worry about taking such plannings for granted either. Plans can change and that shouldn’t hurt, they will just give you more different options for facing your momment of death. Don’t fill the form if – when – while you don’t feel so. Publish contradictory death plans if you want it too.

Postmortem: 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

BirthDate

DeathDate is a good naming (for puzzy), also because of “dating” ambivalence. Alternative brandings: DieSafe, Death and Next, etc