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I don't think I could ever sleep well at night, knowing that I built a business based upon on the death of others. In other words, I'll never work as a coffin maker or at a funeral home. No offense or judgement towards the 1000Memories people, I think it's a good goal. That's just my own choice.
Wouldn't this be a great way to remember people you care about?
The difficulty here is not in building software for a memorial page [although I'm sure there is a lot of room for experimentation and improvement], but in detecting that someone has passed away, and then handling all interactions relating to that user with extreme sensitivity.
Legacy Locker, while solving a different problem (how do you transfer your online presence to your inheritors?), has a process to deal with this involving death certificates and trusted verifiers: http://legacylocker.com/features/verifiers
A common urge when someone passes is to want to do something to honor them; be that planting a tree, naming a trophy or starting a foundation. I'm not sure the Internet really makes those things easier. Seriously, planting a tree is easier with the Internet? I've thought a lot about my own death and what I want from the people who love me is that they weep. I don't want some legacy implanted on the world as if I, one…
Why not chat with the dead via chatbots that capture their personality, interests, knowledge, etc.? Wouldn't this be a great way to remember people you care about?
A common urge when someone passes is to want to do something to honor them; be that planting a tree, naming a trophy or starting a foundation. I'm not sure the Internet really makes those things easier. Seriously, planting a tree is easier with the Internet? I've thought a lot about my own death and what I want from the people who love me is that they weep. I don't want some legacy implanted on the world as if I, one…
I think about this every once in awhile, and as a husband and father of two, I'd rather my family has a huge party and is happy for how lucky I've been and how much fun I've had. I don't want people I like to have to weep.
I don't think I could ever sleep well at night, knowing that I built a business based upon on the death of others. In other words, I'll never work as a coffin maker or at a funeral home. No offense or judgement towards the 1000Memories people, I think it's a good goal. That's just my own choice.
Could you build a business on helping to assuage others' grief?
I think essentially I'm just really against the high costs of death proceedings. It should cost less money, not more, and the more services that get tacked on the higher the cost gets.
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In other words, upload their conscious to the internet? If you can figure out how, I'm game.
No, I don't mean that.
If they were actually living on in the internet- not necessarily perfectly, but enough to get people to buy it- that would help assuage grief, but we have no idea how to do that yet.
I'm always leery of a startup based on a platform like this, because Facebook can easily easily take the ground out from under you. There's also no early mover advantage or network effect (unlike say, admob), so if facebook chooses to implement this it would be fatal.