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A setting inside Apple or Google can outrank your will. Here's the actual hierarchy, the Keychain hole, and how to make the settings and the documents say the same names.

Estate plans decay from the day you make them. Here's a catalog of what silently breaks, plus a quarterly and annual maintenance schedule to keep yours alive.

A legacy journal is written for someone, not just about yourself. Here's how to start one, keep it going, and make sure your family actually receives it.

If you died tomorrow, would your family know where the will is, how to reach the people who matter, or what you'd want at the end? The "If I'm Gone" journal puts it all in one place, sealed until the moment it's needed. Here's how to build one in Killswitch, plus a real example to copy.

our password manager holds the keys to your entire life: your bank, your email, your business, all of it. So what happens to it if you're gone? A break-glass kit is the one document that gets the person you trust into your accounts, without leaving the keys lying around. Here's how to build one in Killswitch, plus a real example to copy.

Killswitch now connects to Claude. Ask it to draft notes and notebooks for you — everything stays encrypted at rest, and Claude only has access during sessions you start and can revoke.

If you've ever designed a distributed system, you already know how to do digital estate planning. The vocabulary is the same — single point of failure, failover, RTO, audit log — and the question is the same: what happens to a critical node when it goes down? You just haven't applied the framework to yourself yet.

Your code outlives you. Your accounts don't. Your npm packages keep being downloaded a million times a week with nobody at the wheel. A look at what actually happens to a developer's open source footprint after death — and why the bus factor of half the internet is one.

The average Steam user has a library worth $1,500+. Serious gamers pass $10,000. Add consoles, subscriptions, in-game currencies, and Twitch subs, and gaming becomes a five-figure digital asset — one almost no estate plan addresses.

73% of adults over 65 use the internet daily, but most haven't shared a single login with family. Here's how to help your aging parents organize their digital lives — with compassion and practical steps.