Digital Life.. The Heir and the Will
We are all on a journey and will inevitably reach the time of death "may God prolong your lives in goodness," however long or short the time. But digital accounts have an important share in this context, requiring the adjustment of settings that would determine who will inherit these accounts, who has the right to announce the death, to whom the profits of your digital life from apps and videos return, and who has the right to download your photos and videos from the cloud services.. etc.
The big challenge here is that each platform has its own rules. For example, some of them immediately cancel the account, while others convert the accounts into a memorial, so that all posts are preserved whatever their nature, positive or negative, therefore each of us should select what we share, especially in such cases! In this case, memorial accounts become frozen, no change accepted on them at all except after a long and broad argument with the platform, which may or may not succeed. The matter likewise applies to app stores, for many of them rely on external servers that feed the app, so these apps collapse because their other services are paid and continuity of payment, development, and updating for them was not recommended, so the app stores are forced to delete the apps from the stores. The matter may reach digital purchases, such as electronic games, audio, digital books, and others, for their ownership is often not inherited but deleted! Since it is tied for life to whoever purchased it only.
To avoid harm and regulate it, it is very necessary to write down passwords and take inventory of important accounts along with two-step login codes, as well as profit sites, digital currencies, and servers, and every digital account, as well as the cloud storage for your photos, videos, and memoirs, with clear instructions and alerts for use, downloading, prohibitions, and access rights.
This sensitive information may be stored either in the home's metal safe, or in a law office, or even in the bank, and some websites specialized in these procedures, or simply writing it all in a memo in the Google Docs service, and activating the "Inactive Account" mechanism, which in turn sends an email after a period of time containing the account recovery data to whomever you have chosen as a digital heir to the account's data and content. The same service is also available in several companies such as Apple, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and others.
