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'Is There Anybody There?' When the living can speak to the dead, what will they say? The Art of Memorialising - Audio Newsletter
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Welcome to The Art of Memorialising - an audio newsletter by Peter Billingham from Death Goes Digital and Memorable Words Eulogy Writing Services bringing you the latest news on digital immortality, digital legacy, digital life curation and all things #Deathtech. Thanks for being here.
Sponsoring this edition of The Art of Memorialising is Murial
Murial is a startup with a mission to redefine obituaries into beautiful memorial websites. For business owners and professionals in the death care industry, this September, Murial is launching an exclusive new partnership program that offers huge incentives. See if their partnership program naturally fits with your product or service. Details are below.
What Will You Find In This Issue?
* Speaking to the dead could become a daily conversation for some.
* What if charities changed focus in their efforts for ‘in-memory fundraising to the living,’ and not the dead?
* When digital legacy planning moves from the realms of purely interest to absolute necessity.
Photo by Melinda Gimpel on Unsplash
Will bitcoins or your life story be the legacy of greatest value?
‘Legacy is not leaving something for people. Legacy is leaving something in people.’ Peter Strople.
Being of sound mind, I do hereby declare this to be my last will and testament…
And so opens a standard will in the UK. A legal document, expressing your wishes about what you leave behind when your days end.
* Your property.
* Your cash.
* Your collection of vinyls.
* Your NFT’s and Bitcoin’s.
* Your Candy Crush Saga credits.
* Your online betting wins.
* Your in-store/online loyalty points.
Have you made a will?
Apparently, only 4 in 10 adults have. The pandemic created increased demand for will writing for sure. The wills, trusts and probate market saw significant growth in demand in the last couple of years. Still, many fail to action one simple choice that could save so much worry, and unnecessary problems for their loved ones - by making a will.
During the last month, several newsletter sign ups (thank you very much) were from members of organisations providing information and support to charities for ‘in-memory fundraising.’ Helping charities find innovative ways to encourage their supporters to leave a legacy gift to the charity in their will.
You know how when you are thinking about buying a red car… you see red cars everywhere? It seems to be the same this month for me but with wills! I’ve seen so many links offering to write a free will for me! The Guide Dogs, British Red Cross, and RSPCA, among them. The Goodwill Partnership and National Free Wills Network provide the legal help to write the wills.
I wonder? Are new A.I. innovations opening up opportunities for ‘in-memory fundraising’ through life-curation, rather than death-preparation?
Over the last six years, I’ve written and spoke about #digitallegacy. Honestly, mostly those who are in the #digitallegacy industry to some extent, find the subject as interesting as me! Most don’t.
And for now, most still don’t.
I think it is the same reason why 6 out of 10 adults will die without a will.
You have to die. We just don’t want to think about it or talk about. But telling the stories of our life, now, that’s another thing.
Increasingly, I’m finding people are more interested in what they can leave behind in the way of a life story as a legacy. Something they can do now, rather than later. There is a growing trend towards life-curation, self remembrance, even memoir writing.
For example, Memories to Memoir–An Introduction To Life Writing, is an online course by Derbyshire Writing School. (For full disclosure, my daughter, Laura Stroud, created and leads the course.) While I’m incredibly proud of her endeavours (I’m her dad, of course!), what she is seeing is a consistent growth of people wanting to write their life stories to leave as a legacy. Most courses sell out quickly. Clients come to her for help w
Welcome to The Art of Memorialising - an audio newsletter by Peter Billingham from Death Goes Digital and Memorable Words Eulogy Writing Services bringing you the latest news on digital immortality, digital legacy, digital life curation and all things #Deathtech. Thanks for being here.
Sponsoring this edition of The Art of Memorialising is Murial
Murial is a startup with a mission to redefine obituaries into beautiful memorial websites. For business owners and professionals in the death care industry, this September, Murial is launching an exclusive new partnership program that offers huge incentives. See if their partnership program naturally fits with your product or service. Details are below.
What Will You Find In This Issue?
* Speaking to the dead could become a daily conversation for some.
* What if charities changed focus in their efforts for ‘in-memory fundraising to the living,’ and not the dead?
* When digital legacy planning moves from the realms of purely interest to absolute necessity.
Photo by Melinda Gimpel on Unsplash
Will bitcoins or your life story be the legacy of greatest value?
‘Legacy is not leaving something for people. Legacy is leaving something in people.’ Peter Strople.
Being of sound mind, I do hereby declare this to be my last will and testament…
And so opens a standard will in the UK. A legal document, expressing your wishes about what you leave behind when your days end.
* Your property.
* Your cash.
* Your collection of vinyls.
* Your NFT’s and Bitcoin’s.
* Your Candy Crush Saga credits.
* Your online betting wins.
* Your in-store/online loyalty points.
Have you made a will?
Apparently, only 4 in 10 adults have. The pandemic created increased demand for will writing for sure. The wills, trusts and probate market saw significant growth in demand in the last couple of years. Still, many fail to action one simple choice that could save so much worry, and unnecessary problems for their loved ones - by making a will.
During the last month, several newsletter sign ups (thank you very much) were from members of organisations providing information and support to charities for ‘in-memory fundraising.’ Helping charities find innovative ways to encourage their supporters to leave a legacy gift to the charity in their will.
You know how when you are thinking about buying a red car… you see red cars everywhere? It seems to be the same this month for me but with wills! I’ve seen so many links offering to write a free will for me! The Guide Dogs, British Red Cross, and RSPCA, among them. The Goodwill Partnership and National Free Wills Network provide the legal help to write the wills.
I wonder? Are new A.I. innovations opening up opportunities for ‘in-memory fundraising’ through life-curation, rather than death-preparation?
Over the last six years, I’ve written and spoke about #digitallegacy. Honestly, mostly those who are in the #digitallegacy industry to some extent, find the subject as interesting as me! Most don’t.
And for now, most still don’t.
I think it is the same reason why 6 out of 10 adults will die without a will.
You have to die. We just don’t want to think about it or talk about. But telling the stories of our life, now, that’s another thing.
Increasingly, I’m finding people are more interested in what they can leave behind in the way of a life story as a legacy. Something they can do now, rather than later. There is a growing trend towards life-curation, self remembrance, even memoir writing.
For example, Memories to Memoir–An Introduction To Life Writing, is an online course by Derbyshire Writing School. (For full disclosure, my daughter, Laura Stroud, created and leads the course.) While I’m incredibly proud of her endeavours (I’m her dad, of course!), what she is seeing is a consistent growth of people wanting to write their life stories to leave as a legacy. Most courses sell out quickly. Clients come to her for help w
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