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Work · April 2, 2017

Dead Man's Switch

Build your digital will, god forbid you suddenly die.

Dead Man's Switch launched on April 2, 2017 with 4 votes. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

What it does

Bad things happen. Sometimes, they happen to you. If something does happen, you might wish there was something you had told the people around you. How you feel, what you regret, what you wish you had said. Or maybe you just want to make sure your pets are taken care of promptly. For that, you need a dead man's switch. This is how this works. You write a few e-mails and choose the recipients. These emails are stored privately until they're sent. Your switch will email you every so often, asking you to show that you are fine by clicking a link. If something were to... happen ... to you, your switch would then send the emails you wrote to the recipients you specified. Sort of an "electronic…from deadmansswitch.net

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