Chief Prognosticator

Steal My Idea Part 7 - “The Will Site”

The Will Site — rather pleasant sounding name, right? Well the subject matter is not so pleasant, but it needs to be discussed. In fact, the idea I am about to present could be very helpful to people. Here’s the pitch — a free service which enables a person to detail valuable information to send to their loved ones upon their death. For example, if I die tomorrow, my wife will not have any clue what my Yahoo email account password is. Yahoo has a strong policy of not giving out password information, even upon death! How serious is this? Well just think about how many online activities surround your email address. If you forget your password at your electric bill or mortgage bill online pay website, you are sent the link to change the password to where??? Yup, you guessed it — your email address on file. Well if that email address is a Yahoo one and your spouse doesn’t have the password, how can she access the email to change the password? It will be a lot more difficult. Also the Will Site could store instructions you write to your spouse on things like “How do I pay XYZ online” or “Which insurance policies do we have and where are they located”. In a perfect world, our loved ones would always be kept in the loop and know this stuff, but for many of us, you just take care of these things and the spouse in the dark unless there is a specific reason to know. The Will Site would allow you to provide instructions from beyond the grave to help your spouse carry on with her life. (I use Her, but of course it could go either way).