Name Change

A blog is unlike a body. Death is permanent for a body (more or less), but a blog can live and die and live and die until bodily death visits he who wields the username and password.

Speaking of death and passwords, what happens to someone's online property when they die? Who becomes responsibile for their facebook pages? Or their archived emails? My gmail account contains thousands upon thousands of gchat conversations with some of my best friends. It is my legacy. I don't want it to be cyber-degraded by e-microbes, and neither do I want it to sit, inert, locked away in some internet closet for eternity. If I were to die, and some old friend didn't know it and were to visit my facebook page, it would be nice if my About Me section contained an addendum. Like, "p.s. I'm dead now!" Or this blog. What would become of it? Would it just sit out here forever? Or, would Blogger eventually figure out that I'm dead and then put a skull and bones icon at the top of the page?

I don't plan on leaving this world any time soon. I mean, as long as people are generating new porn genres, I'll have a reason to get up in the morning. But, perhaps I should leave a record of my passwords somewhere and deed them to people, just like a will. Someone can be responsible for my email. Another can be responsible for my social networking sites. Another can be in charge of my bank and credit card accounts. And perhaps one lucky, lucky boy or girl will be given the mantle of carrying on this groundbreaking, usually dead blog.