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Digital Legacy Planning: Preserving a Life Before It Is Gone

Your digital presence—email accounts, social media, photos, financial records, messages—outlives your body and deserves the same intentional planning you'd give to physical property. Clarifying what happens to these accounts and documents before a crisis protects your loved ones from both practical chaos and the unintended weight of managing your online self.

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Why It Matters

Digital legacy planning is the intentional process of organizing, preserving, and contextualizing a person's memories, stories, values, and wishes in digital formats so that they remain accessible and meaningful to loved ones after the person has died or lost the ability to communicate. It goes beyond a simple will to include voice recordings, annotated photos, written reflections, and curated life stories.

AI tools are uniquely suited to assist with digital legacy planning because they can guide structured interviews, help organize fragmented memories into coherent narratives, and create searchable archives that families can return to for comfort and connection across generations.

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