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Out there: Remembering the dead
March 9, 2003
by Peggy O'Crowley
The Star-Ledger
The price of immortality? How's 10 bucks sound?
That's how much it costs to create an online memorial
to yourself that family and friends can visit when you've left this mortal coil.
A new online service, www.PartingWishes.com, will create cyberhomes for your
will, funeral wishes, messages
to loved ones or a memorial for yourself or a
loved one. Subscribers can leave these written instructions
in encrypted messages, to be read posthumously by anyone they select.
"A lot of people express what they want in their funeral, but they don't write
it down, or they put a piece of paper in a bedside table, and it might not be discovered
for weeks or months later. Then you find out, 'Oh, wow, he wanted to be cremated,'"
CEO and president Tim Hewson says. "Or it's kind of awkward to discuss your funeral.
Or you want to let someone know you've got a stash of bank notes in your closet,
but not until you're gone."
The Toronto-based company came about after Hewson and a partner attended the
funeral of a colleague at a large telecommunications company. Everyone seemed to
agree that the funeral was too somber and morbid for a twentysomething young man
(who died in a car accident), he said. It also got him to thinking about a will,
another task many people find too unpleasant to deal with. Subscribers can create
an online will that is tailored to all 50 states and the different provinces of
Canada.
Prices vary for different services. The Silver I package includes files for
funeral services, messages
to loved ones (or enemies) and a will for $35 a year,
$60 for 10 years. And that $25 will keep your Web page, complete with pictures and
testimonials, going for one year after your death; it costs more to extend it for
5 or 10 years later. Of course, you can provide for the upkeep in your will.
Either way, says Hewson, "that's a bargain."
-- Peggy O'Crowley
(From The Star-Ledger newspaper, Sunday, March 9, 2003)
(Note that you can create your Will, Power of Attorney and Living Will online at
http://www.PartingWishes.com,
http://www.USLegalWills.com,
http://www.LegalWills.ca and
http://www.LegalWills.co.uk).
For More Information Contact:
PartingWishes.com
Email:
support@partingwishes.com
Internet:
http://www.partingwishes.com