65 million faces reanimated in a month by a genealogy company creating “deep nostalgia”. We can barely conceive of the impact of this technology. We can only speculate how this technology will impact estate claims especially in terms of informal wills, claims of undue influence and unconscionable conduct, elder abuse claims and the like. https://apple.news/Aio2gYY3kRjKJmiooiPl2Iw

The Public Advocate – Mary Burgess has now tabled its report of its 2 year investigation into the practices, fees and charges of the Queensland Public Trustee.  Preserving the financial futures of vulnerable Queenslanders: A review of Public Trustee fees, charges and practices.  The Attorney-General issued a media release announcing the  government accepts in principle the majority of the 32 recommendations in […]

Imagine receiving an email or an electronic communication from a deceased loved, one long after they have passed? It sounds like the stuff of futuristic movie makers. But it has been a phenomenon in existence since the invention of the telephone. The attached article is an extract from a book – Digital souls: A philosophy of online death,  by Patrick […]

Grief is powerful. Often it is associated with the death of someone we loved dearly. However, from time to time there are people in our life whose death brings, at the very least, relief. Wronged by them in life, death may be the only way we can feel safe from their impact. Some people are so evil, so repulsive, their […]

Some will remember the roast of a commercial for facial cream from a few decades ago, where the comedy skit pronounced the secret ingredient was tears of a Tibetan yak. The product was marketed almost like a youth dew 🤔. For Millenia humans have been searching for the mythical Fountain of Youth. The legend goes that it is a mystical […]

Very few of us will ever reach the giddy and ever lasting heights of writing fame as Shakespeare. But many of us will write a piece that has ever lasting impact on our loved ones (or not so loved ones). That is our will. A will is a powerful document, not simply because it gives away our worldly goods, but […]

Is it Feng Shui or Faux Support to promise eternal life in exchange for a billion dollar bequest? https://www.oddee.com/item_96948.aspx