links.mimuki.net

AI-generated cover image, author provides slopcode to implement their idea, and I am fairly confident the text of the article is not human-written.

The core ideas here are something I want to revisit with my filthy human hands.

For someone so determined to live and live well, there's SO MUCH PAPERWORK associated with dying. Jeeeeez.

After you have died:

a person named in the will
a person named in an earlier will as a beneficiary
your surviving spouse, partner, child or stepchild
any former spouse or partner
your parents or guardians
anyone who would be entitled to a share of your estate had you died without a will
a parent or guardian of a child who is named in the will or would be entitled to a share of your estate had you died without a will
a person managing your estate under a guardianship or administration order immediately before your death.

Siiiigh. This sure opens a can of worms. I can legally exclude relatives, but they will get the whole thing (and can presumably harass any beneficiaries named and otherwise try to make a mess of things).

Beneficiaries of my will are expected to have access to these things. This appointment doesn't have to be done in person, which is nice.

The party game of "$ACTION whenever the ABC newswriter misunderstands naming taboos and sorry business" is alive and well. I mean, it's a good gesture to put the disclaimer, but so soon after Kumanjayi Little Baby I would've assumed they'd remember that's a substitution name, the whole point of which being that you can say it.

Anyway, I lost track of this case a while back. It's gone about as well as I expected.

tldr: no one I want it to unless I jump hoops

Content warning for discussion of suicide.

There's also some "porn bad" sentiment that's a bit reductive, and for some reason the under 16 social media ban is being framed as a good, helpful thing. Even though in the next breath they talk about the benefits of healthy role models on tiktok.