Shmuel wrote: > I am against the 'if I die' part. As we are all communication over the net, > it is very difficult to know why a person have stopped responding. > And it make the statement a bit scary.
And Raphael wrote: > The real problem with 'if I die' is that there is no way of knowing: the > only indication one gets is that mail is not being answered, this clause > is therefore pointless. Having had to deal with this issue for a friend, I'm going to try and put in place mechanisms so that when my time comes, notifications for stuff like this will happen. But I accept that most people (a) don't want to think about this sort of thing most of the time, and (b) it will make this sort of statement less appealing. Man, you *really* wouldn't have linked one of my earlier drafts! It contained works like "incapacitated" and "incarcerated" ;-) I'll mail an updated version once any discussion has calmed down. Neil
