#039: Planning Your Digital Afterlife
Big Picture Retirement®
Devin Carroll
4.7 • 546 Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Most of us have a whole world of digital stuff out there, and some of it is important. You need a plan for how your survivors will access these accounts, whether you are disabled or dead.
As our world becomes more and more digital, it becomes more important that your survivors, heirs and executors can access certain online accounts. This may include bank accounts, email, electronic document storage, insurance policies, and many other types of accounts.
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| 0:00.0 | The Big Picture Retirement Show does not provide specific tax, legal, or financial advice. |
| 0:05.1 | Listeners are encouraged to seek out their own advisors in these areas. |
| 0:12.6 | Hey everyone and welcome to the Big Picture Retirement Show, where we deliver insight on what you need to know for a meaningful retirement. |
| 0:20.5 | If you are planning for or living in |
| 0:23.0 | retirement, this is the show for you. I'm Devin and joined today as always by my co-host John. |
| 0:28.9 | Howdy. |
| 0:33.1 | John, how are you? I'm doing good, man. You know, the other day, I saw an article that said that the average American has somewhere |
| 0:39.9 | around 90 online accounts. |
| 0:43.2 | 90? |
| 0:45.1 | 90. |
| 0:46.3 | Wow. |
| 0:46.7 | Of, you know, if you think about it, though, email accounts, your eBay, your Amazon, |
| 0:51.3 | your social media, you start adding it all up. |
| 0:54.9 | And that's a lot that's out there. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah, it really is. |
| 0:58.2 | And now, we're supposed to use a different password for every site, too, right? |
| 1:01.9 | I know you do that. |
| 1:03.9 | Absolutely. |
| 1:04.7 | There's no way I've ever used the same password. |
| 1:09.5 | I'm sure that you are absolutely not guilty of doing that as I am. |
| 1:14.3 | But I'll tell you, it's one thing why you have all that knowledge up in your head that you know your passwords. |
| 1:20.5 | Maybe you use an app to help you like a LastPass, which I like to use. |
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