Now there are services allowing you to send e-mail messages after your death. For some who have more on-line relationships than in person, this is a way to notify their correspondence of their passing.

More importantly for estate planning, these from the grave services offer a personal way to provide instructions and advice to the fiduciaries in your will and trust. Where a will or trust give technical/legal structure, such an e-mail replaces a memorandum that you could sent, stating your wishes from schooling to baby sitters to foods to college preferences and so on. If you want to explore this more as an “add on” to your estate plan, let us know.