Writing A Technical "will"
Anyone written a technical "will" ?
I am 66 years old and worked in computers all my working life.
While now retired I still love technology so we have 3 desktops PCs in the house (plus a couple of spare PCs) for me, my wife and son, plus a laptop, 2 tablets, and 3 smartphones on contract.
We also have a wi fi printer, Sky TV, a few cameras and so on. Plus I have a number of backup external hard drives for our photos, music, and personal files etc.
We also have many email addresses between us, but my family don't even know my email passwords (let alone many of the email addresses).
Like most people I have money in various different banks, and I also do online banking.
My wife and son are not particularly technical (my 25 year old son has a disability) and if anything goes wrong with the technology I hear a shout and have to go and sort it out.
It occurred to me the other day that if I dropped dead tomorrow my family would have no idea how to sort out all this technology, they don't even know the password for the computer in my office.
So I decided to write a technical "will"
In this "will" I can write down as much information as I can about all this technology, what computers we have, where they are, how to log on to them, how to logon to the router, what email address I have, how to logon to them, what backups I have and how to find them and so on.
Of course it is only when you start to write these things down you realise how much technology information is in your head, and how much you have to put down on paper because with you gone they wont have anyone to ask.
I plan to do this alongside a "financial" will as I don't think they have any idea what bank accounts I have, or ISAs or savings accounts.
It may sound a bit gloomy, thinking about your own death, but it seems to me that we all have access to so much technology nowadays it would help our families if we all did a technical will.
Anyone else done one or thinking of doing one?