When you die... who will let abctales know?

Of course this is an issue that has far reaching consequences... death seems so final doesn't it?  Though our online copywrited material continues to hold effect, as intellectual property, it does potentially revert to one's beneficiaries and thus should be mentioned within one's will (along with passwords and account authorisation details), providing host sites have established such sucessional policies. 

Good questions Shannan.  I know from other sites, including rev share sites that generally the content lives on until it becomes totally irrelevant or no longer drives traffic.  Many sites welcome the participation of family etc in that event, knowing that in that way, the content can continue to be 'refreshed.' 

Well I should think the responsibility would lie with the deceased writer's next of kin but then again their pass word might not have been passed on, unlike the deceased.

Couldn't care less - I'll be dead (and thus past caring).

With Andrea.  But, then, what about immortality?  I'll pass my login on to my NOK.

"Son..."

"What is it, father?"

"There's something I have to tell you before it's too late."

"Oh, father.  I love you too."

"No, you bloody idiot.  User name: Parson Thru.  Password: aaaaaa=ahhhhhhhhh...."

"How are you spelling that, dad?"

"Dad?"

"Dad?"

LOL Parsons!!!

Well; how apropos, as I was in hours of having a seizure from 2 sub-dural haematomas 2 weeks ago. As I live alone collapsing from a seizure would have meant I wouldn't have got to the phone and would have been smelling slightly ripe by now.

You might assume before thoughts of death and catastrophe is that for whatever reason they do not want to contact you.  Leaving them alone might be the best option.
 

The majority of us who cannot publish and make profits out of our writing are left with sites like this where our work can live on after our deaths. It is comforting to think there is somewhere where others, strangers, the world out there can continue to read our works, although our links to the 'present' soon fade and our artistic heritage will soon be forgotten.

My mum. She'd come on to make a new post in the forum. She looks forward to it. Hopes there will be a big turn out. Will wear a feathery hat for the occasion. She plans to say I over use the hyphen but I'm not as depressing in person.  Love-her-bones.

well when i go to that great big ink pot in the  sky, which i hope wont be for a very long timei might add. that i will put in my will all my passwords and that. for the sites i go on.  my words are my heart and soul like everyone.i write songs also( no i will not put any of them on here at all so  no worried) and i have over the last few years been thinking my words my poems yes i dont want them to be thown in the rubbish like a bit of old sock when i kick the bucket. my kids know about them  my grandkids will, and my  hubby. i told them all, when i died dont throw  out any bit of paper with writing on lol but yeah this site we have to leave your hearts on here.  if we can ,we are making our own history  yesterday was history  we just made history a moment ago  and tomorow we make more history. i think that what this site does. and if you pass i think how wonderful that your loveones ds can come and see what you  have put.( hope your all left them the password)

a merry christmas all