My eTestament
No worries, I’m not putting my testament online yet - or at all. 
But after having been contacted by a good online friend, I got into thinking again. If something really bad happens to me, how will people & communities be notified? It doesn’t even have to be death, just a really bad accident… I’m not exactly planning on having any of those two soon, but you never know… isn’t it a good idea to have a last will in that case?
I have many good friends with whom I’m in contact only a couple of times each year. But those friends usually not only know phone numbers, they also know my address, where I live, most of the time even know my parents. If I wasn’t able to return their requests in a longer timespan, they’d know who to ask concerning my whereabouts.
But what about those online friends? People that you chat regularly with, people who might know your full name but neither address, telephone number, parents; Who do not even know close friends of yours? Who would tell them?
I’ve had the case with many people. As for short relationships, I don’t care - people come and go on the Internet all the time. But there have been several people who, after some time, were just gone. No way to find them because there are no real names, etc. Lately, somebody from my former Quake 3 Fortress clan (now Enemy Territory Fortress, and I’m inactive) was found dead in a lake and it seems that we only found about it because he had a reallife acquaintance in the clan as well.
I’m going to plan this after my next exam, because currently, time is short. I’ll probably draft a document containing all important people, forums, communities to notify in case of my death or accident, with passwords, nicknames, etc. and when and how to contact them. Print it, and deposit it somewhere safe with my parents - in later years it might be my wife, or even a notary. I’ll also do some research on how people cope with this idea.
