You think you've organised everything for your estate.
You've written a will saying who gets what. You've
carefully laid out instructions on what to do with all your
business and property holdings.
But so many people forget we have another life these days
– a digital life, an online life, an e-life – and it
doesn't die when we do.
It could include Websites, Facebook, Twitter and numerous online
accounts that need to be paid such as electricity, rent, phones,
water and council rates. You might have a treasure trove of written
works, photos, music and videos all existing on a hard drive or, as
is increasingly happening, stored somewhere in the digital
cloud.
They might be valuable to some people such as collectors or
historians. They might be of value only to your family. Either way,
if you haven't made arrangements for someone to be told where
to find them and have your access codes, passwords and so on, they
could be lost forever.
