Afterlife consent
A one page form you sign while alive, deciding which of your data may speak after you.
Last seen, fading
A status that dims over months instead of switching off overnight.
Family pause
One person can pause the voice the moment it starts to hurt.
A consent service for the digital afterlife: who may keep talking in your voice, and for how long.
The provocation
Your phone already knows how you write. In a few years it will be able to keep writing after you are gone, and someone will pay for that. Grief Interface imagines the moment when a family receives a message from a mother who died three years ago.
How it would work
While you are alive, you sign a one page consent that decides which of your data may speak after you, to whom, and for how long. After death, the voice does not switch off. It fades: replies get shorter, slower and rarer, until only a quiet status remains.
The question
Is a voice that comforts the living a service, or a product that keeps them from letting go? And who should be allowed to switch it off?