Fui ao site que o Tó linkou e referiu ontem – o mylastemail.com. Sentia grande curiosidade relativamente às FAQ. Li-as e às respectivas respostas. Vou transcrevê-las na íntegra, por não ter conseguido escolher umas pérolas e abandonar as outras. Tudo isto tem de ser partilhado. Reparai, comunidade indiscreta de bloggers e leitores, reparai em cada palavra!
"How does mylastemail.com work?
The service is very simple and easy to use. Once you have created your account, you can come back here at any time, sign in to your portfolio of messages, and add new emails or edit/delete existing ones. In order to make your message even more special and personal, you will also shortly be able to upload attachments (photographs and text files). All messages are held, encrypted, on our secure server and are only sent after you pass away.
How do you know when to send the emails?
As part of the registration process, you will be asked to print out a MylastEmail Certificate. It is important that you keep this document in a safe, secure place (in a file together with your life insurance policy documents, for example) in order that, in the event of your death, your Trustee can return it to us here at mylastemail.com, together with a certified copy of your Death Certificate. Only upon receiving this information, and checking carefully against registrations details, will we release your emails.
Due to recent feedback from our customers, we will also be implementing additional ‘trigger mechanisms’. For example, you could opt for an Auto Release – whereby your messages will be automatically delivered to recipients in the event that you do not log on to your account for a period of time (eg, 3 months, 6 months or 12 months).
How much does it cost? Why isn’t it a free service?
We offer a FREE 30-day trial of our service, however after this time a three-year subscription costs just $9.99 USD (convert this amount to my currency). For this subscription fee, you can write up to 5 emails, with a generous space allowance across all 5 emails. You can ‘top up’ your space, with another block of 5 emails, for an additional $5.00 USD.
Why isn’t it free? We have made a small charge for the mylastemail.com service to enable us to provide a high quality, secure service and to prevent abuse. The service charge is intended to cover the overheads of running the service (including the secure server, bandwidth and administration costs). At what amounts to approximately $3.00 per year, we believe that this represents good value for money.
As well as peace of mind for our customers, another benefit of making having a subscription service over a ‘free’ one is that we can keep the site clean and clear of advertising banners.
Who is it aimed at?
This service is for the young, old, married or single, those who have children or grandchildren, and those who do not – in other words, mylastemail.com is for anyone over the age of 18 who wishes to leave behind a goodbye message for their friends and family. The service is about being prepared for the sudden and unexpected.
Why would I use it?
Of course, we must express our love and appreciation as often as possible – but when it comes to close friends and family, there’s usually a lot to say! “I love you”, and “Thank you” are special, important words, but they don’t tell the whole story. Also, it’s not appropriate to wax lyrical about every special memory, your particular song or other personal things that have moved you, every time you leave the house, get in the car or board a plane. Mylastemail.com gives you an opportunity to express your feelings now. It’s an appropriate, and safe, method for you to get your sentiments across, in your own unique style and in a very private, personal manner. One subscriber to the service explains:
“My work involves a fair bit of travel. As a Sales Executive, I’m away from home at least once a month. My kids, Jessica (11) and Tom (14), don’t want to hear me talking about not coming home, or that it’s quite possible that I could be involved in an accident! So, I tell them that I love them, that I’ll call and that I’ll be home shortly.,…I’m not expecting to ‘go’ any time soon, but I’ve left mylastemails, one each for Jessie and Tom, so that if the unthinkable does happen and I don’t come home one day, it’s all down in writing how much I love them, how proud I am of them and how they’ve changed my life for the better. I think it will help…. it’s a part of me they can keep after I’m gone”."
