Daily Dose of Sultnpapper 01/26/18> How many secrets get taken to the grave?

Normally when I pull this laptop out at the end of the day and power it up I have pretty darn good idea about what it is that I am going to embed on the block chain for eternity. Some days it is hard to decide because I’ll have two or three subjects that I feel are equally worthy of being selected, this is not one of those days.

I made it back home Thursday night from being out of town for three days and it was a bitter sweet homecoming. Like always, it’s good to be home, but with the events that happened this past week everyone in the house is upset over the passing of Percy. Funeral services will be Friday morning at 10:00 AM at the family cemetery.

Death is an interesting subject, as morbid as that sounds, but it really is and we really don’t have any rock solid answers about what actually happens after we exhale our last breath. We all have heard the stories from people who had near death experiences and those that claim to have been taken to the “light” and then end up back in their bodies and revived. The thing about those people is that they haven’t taken their last breath so the stories while may be true, they don’t qualify under my scenario of last breath.

I don’t do well when it comes to death, and it really doesn’t matter what or who has died, death is just so final and impacting. I’ve had to bury my parents already and it is not an easy task. Luckily for me I have two brothers and a sister and while we may not have been that close in our younger years, age and death does bring you closer together. When I was in school I had several friends who were the “only child” and I hate to think how having to go through that situation alone would have been for me if I was an only child.

Recently I have been hearing some advertising on the radio in my truck while I’m driving for a company called Legacy Films. Just like you might imagine from the name the company comes out and does a film documentary on a person’s life for a fee. That way the person can tell their own story in their own words and nothing will be distorted or details left out. Is that not a great idea? I don’t know what they charge for this service, but we are all capable of doing the same thing even if all you have to record with is just a cell phone.

Who is going to tell your story after you have taken your last breath? Are they going to tell it they way you would have wanted it to be told? Will they lie about you? Most of you know why I came here to steemit.com since I’ve had to tell it about three times since I’ve been here. Those of you who haven’t heard it, here is the briefest explanation. I’m here telling my story for my future grand kids in case I’m gone before they make here.

I thought having a written blog that the grand kids could read, saved on the block chain, was the best possible way to accomplish what I wanted to do, tell my stories. Well I was wrong, digital video saved on the block chain would be best.

I don’t know the workings of how the block chain works, I don’t know anything about the storage capabilities of it either, I guess I’m here on blind faith that it is being stored for perpetuity, at least that has been my understanding.

So if one of you folks with more knowledge and experience in this block chain stuff would consider this suggestion. Why not start a Steem Legacy Film Vault on the block chain? Make it a place where people could post their life story for future generations to access and learn about their ancestors straight from the horse’s mouth. It could be limited to one film for each account on the steem block chain, also it could be updated once a year ,but only the latest film would be available for viewing. As a new film is uploaded, the preceding film would be no longer available for viewing. It might be still on the block chain but the record would no longer be associated to the account, kind of a lost in space scenario if you know what I mean. Or maybe it could be deleted, if all the witnesses agree that a new film has replaced the existing one. Like I said, I don’t know how it works, but surely someone out there knows.

Stop and think for a minute on how many secrets have been taken to the grave with people. Now that I think about it even further, in order to access the film a person would need the master key for the steem account to access that Legacy Film Vault account, that way if there were any family secrets or end of life confessions made on the recording the family could decide how or what they would do with the information. This could replace written wills in probate cases if that is what the person wanted to do, updating wills can be expensive with the attorney fees and such; this film could replace those wills very easily. What judge could over rule what the owner of the property had to say about dispersing his personal property? There might be a judge or two out there but there is also appeals courts if that happened.

I know this idea has a lot of holes in it, but smarter minds than mine could take this idea and make it work. When and if that happens then you people won’t have to read my crazy stories and dumb ideas any longer, they will be in my legacy film for my future grand kids. So, is it an idea worthy of consideration? Tell me what you folks think; would you take advantage of the opportunity? Even you younger folks need to think about it, you never know when your number will be up, and that last breath will be taken.

Until next time,
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