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How-To: Manage your ‘digital afterlife’ while you’re still here to do it

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<p>None of us likes to think about our own mortality, but as the old saying has it, nobody is going to make it out of here alive.</p>
<p>Things were simple enough in the old days. We wrote a will, took out a life insurance policy, maybe left a letter explaining where to find important documents, and that was about it. But in an age where many of our documents and assets are in digital form, it’s worth taking a little time to ensure that our loved ones don’t encounter major hassles when it comes to accessing them.</p>
<p>There was a <a href="http://9to5mac.com/2016/01/19/digital-property-after-death-issues-continue-as-apple-requires-court-order-for-widow-to-get-late-husbands-apple-id-password/" target="_blank">case recently[/url] where a widow was unable to use the apps on her late husband’s iPad because she didn’t know the password for his Apple ID – and Apple wouldn’t give it to her even with his death certificate. There have been other cases of family members being locked out of a lifetime’s collection of music for the same reason.</p>
<p>Fortunately, there are a few simple steps we can take to ensure that technology is one less thing for our family to have to worry about …</p>
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