[extropy-chat] website gravestone a "post-living" will.

[Extropian Agroforestry Ventures Inc.]

If the body is stored mummified , some tissues are cryobanked and the head is
crypreserved, maybe the Website gravestone could have an interactive feature
which includes updated future time or event based  "living will" instructions.
The program could act as your "legal gaurdian" during stasis.  A secure means
for the program to
ensure the date was not tampered with is required.

Kevin Freels wrote:

> I came up with this idea in 1996 while I was working at a funeral home (it
> lasted about 3 months). The prototype that Iused as an example was made from
> laptop parts embedded into a headstone. I actually went through the process
> of having the stone cut to fit my parts and put it together! The prototype
> had to have power supplied, but I was working on a way to recahrge the
> battery with solar cells.
> A brass engraved plate was hinged to cover the screen and was flipped into
> the up position to reveal the screen. (The plan was for a touch screen but I
> didn;t have the money to get that kind of technology) It was all read from a
> CDROM and it included the ability to do things such as present new
> information based on the date. In this way, a father could give new advice
> to his 16 year old daughter that he would never give his 6 year old even if
> he died when she was 5.
>
> There was a lot more to this, but I was laughed out of every funeral home in
> the city and some in other cities. I was told that this business was a "very
> conservative" and "serious" business and that my ideas were just too far out
> for that. Meanwhile, Elvis fans were being buried in Cadillac shaped coffins
> that promised to play Elvis music for eternity!
>
> Finally, after several attempts, I threw my hands up in the air. 3 years
> later, I heard a Japanese company was doing something similar. Now I can;t
> find anything about it. Either way, I',m too pissed off to care.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Spike" <spike66 at comcast.net>
> To: "'ExI chat list'" <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:09 AM
> Subject: [extropy-chat] website gravestone
>
> >
> > When my time on this planet is over, may it be
> > maaaany years in the future, I plan to get in the
> > old liquid nitrogen bath with Ted, but suppose I were
> > one of those who didn't believe in such a thing.
> >
> > If one were to have a website engraved on one's
> > headstone, what is the best way to sign up for and
> > prepay some service to ensure that the website will
> > not 404 for at least a century hence?  One could
> > then post one's photos, one's DNA sequence, papers,
> > hobbies and interests, research, relatives living
> > and past, one's predictions, investments, favorite
> > charities, a reference to the extropian archives
> > where one has deposited one's favorite ideas for
> > years, etc.  One could even write one's own
> > urology.  Or whatever it is called.
> >
> > How?
> >
> > Business opportunity for some of you web jockies?
> >
> > spike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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