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ICP 159 Death Goes Digital with Peter Billingham (Part One)

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In this episode you’ll learn:

  • What will happen to your on-line life after death
  • How to look after your digital legacy
  • How to start managing your digital assets
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With over 35 million people no longer alive on Facebook is now the time to start considering your digital legacy.

Who is going to manage your content when you die?

What’s going to happen to everything you’ve ever created online over time?

In this episode, funeral celebrant, previous guest and author of, Death Goes Digital, Peter Billingham shares his ideas, tips, thoughts and stories on what it means to manage your digital legacy before it’s too late.

You’ll also hear why the funeral industry is slow to reach the digital age.

And stories of why end of life planning is more important than ever.

“Whatever we put on the internet today is going to form our digital legacy” – Peter Billingham

Items mentioned in this episode (quick access):

Death goes digital

[00:46] Welcome back Peter Billingham

[01:55] How Peter helps entrepreneurs with public speaking.

[03:11] Pete describes his role as a funeral celebrant.

[04:44] The story behind Death Goes Digital.

A dying industry?

[06:50] Who Pete’s book is for.

[08:30] Why the funeral industry is so far behind in digital.

[09:15] Co-op funeral care and Dignity.

[11:19] How well Death Goes Digital is being received.

Digital legacy

[13:00] Death, Live, Whatever.

[13:50] Direct mail campaigns.

[15:38] The funeral industry today. Memorial sites. After death products.

[19:10] End of life planning. Safe Beyond. Geo-tagging a video.

Online life after death

[20:18] Dead social.

[24:22] How to manage a digital legacy. Death, Dying and Social Work.

[25:00] Morgan Hehir.

[28:14] Facebook legacy contact settings.

[29:31] How to start managing your digital assets.

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