If you don’t take your smartphone to your grave or your funeral urn, why not use Past Post? This original app allows you to send your last wishes and even leave voice messages to your loved ones…
“What would happen if I died suddenly?” It is to answer this question – essential, if a little macabre – that a Mexican named Miguel Farrell has designed an application to store his messages and his last wishes to share with his loved ones if death were to strike him. Baptized Past Post, allows you to put your affairs in order at the time of the big departure, whether announced or unexpected. For example, a father or a mother who knows he is doomed can record congratulatory messages that his children can listen to several years later when they graduate. Likewise, a foresighted person can communicate essential information to his family, such as the code of his safe, the agreements of his investments in a company, etc.
Past Post: preparing your digital will
The Past Post app allows you to put everything in order before passing the weapon to the left. Thus, the user can save his preferences for the organization of the funeral, but also give directives for the management of his social networks or concerning all that is administrative. It also allows you to carry out an inventory of your assets (insurance, vehicles, real estate, jewellery, bank accounts, etc.) and to distribute it among your relatives.
By using this application, the user entrusts a lot of private and particularly sensitive information to the platform. To ensure their security, Past Post undertakes to keep the data in the form of NFT (the acronym for Non-Fungible Token, or “non-fungible token” in French) – it is a kind of certificate of authenticity that assigns a monetary value to an asset – using blockchain technology – data is stored and transmitted in the form of blocks linked to each other, without any central body or intermediary, which makes it possible to gain transparency, security and speed .
Past Post is part of a niche market that can meet a real need. Indeed, according to its designer, 94% of Mexicans have neither a will nor an inventory of assets, and 62% do not know the assets and debts of their partner. Past Post offers subscriptions at 399 pesos for one year (about 20 euros), 999 euros for three years (about 50 euros) and 2,999 pesos for ten years (about 150 euros). The creator recalls, however, that the application does not replace a real will for which the law requires a notarized document. The file created by the application therefore has no legal value, particularly in France. The fact remains that Miguel Farrell’s initiative is original and that it may give ideas to our dear notaries…