We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain. Stephen Hawking

There are three kinds of death in this world. There’s heart death, there’s brain death and there’s being off the network.  Guy Almes

My sister and I were talking about planning ahead.  She asked if I had a will.  I said “Not an up-dated one.”  Being a good sis, she told me very plainly to “get your butt in gear and get it done”.  My sis is not one to sugar coat anything.  She speaks very plain and straight to the heart of the matter.  Maybe that is where I got it from.  Oh, wait, Mary is younger than I.  Anyway, I started to think about all things “after-life” and one of the thoughts turned to my on-line life.  I started a search for something that would help me and came across the Inactive Account Manager on my Google+.

Perhaps you have already done this.  If so, you have one thing to cross off on your “after-life” list of things to do and are ahead of the rest of us.  It’s ghoulish I know but hey Halloween is not that far off.  Imagine, it could be your new Halloween costume.  Bet no one else would have one on.

Anyway, after much searching and reading I found out how to take care of my virtual after life.  I also agree with what Mayuri Mehrota said on her page on July 6, 2015:

“Setting up Inactive Account Manager on Google felt like I was writing my will”.

Check out: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/account/inactive for more information or you can read the following articles I thought explained things very well.  So drink a glass of wine or whatever and have a “Happy After Life” planning party. Let me know how it goes. Cheers.

Google’s New Inactive Account Manager Gives You Control Over Your Digital Afterlife

Posted Apr 11, 2013 by Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl)

What will happen to your Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google+ accounts after you die? That’s probably not something you really want to think about, but as more and more of our data now lives online, that’s sadly a question that comes up with some regularity. Today, Google is launching its Inactive Account Manager on the Google Account settings page, which sets out to set up a system that allows you to tell Google “what you want done with your digital assets when you die or can no longer use your account.”  For more info:http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/googles-afterlife

Or there is this page that I thought was pretty good too.

C/NET, April 11, 20134:28 PM PDT  Matt Elliott said:

…”Notify contacts and share data,” you can name up to 10 contacts, which I’d imagine would be close friends and family members, who will be notified when your account has remained inactive for the specified period of time. For each contact, you can set it up so that that contact is simply notified that your account is inactive, or you can check the box for “Share my data with this contact” and choose which Google products you’d like to share data from.

Contacts you choose to share with will be able (after your timeout period is up) to download your data for three months. For each contact, you will need to also provide a phone number that Google can use to send a verification code the contact will need to access your data. Also in this section, you can set an auto-response for all incoming e-mails to your Gmail address once it becomes inactive. more at http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-set-up-googles-inactive-account-manager/)