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"Dead Man Handle is a kill switch that sends an E-mail when you are incapacitated by using periodic E-mail verification, known as heartbeats. If you don’t respond via E-mail we will send a pre-defined message to your contacts upon your demise. We’ll send you an E-mail every two weeks. If you don’t click the link within three days we’ll send an E-mail to your emergency contacts. Simple as that."

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Why do the emails go out every 2 weeks? Why not send an email once per year, and give people a year to respond? Maybe send a second email or a text if the final month approaches and the person hasn’t responded yet.

And 3 days seems a little hasty. What’s the rush, after all? If someone is dead for 3 days they’ll surely be dead for another 300.

Clicking an email link every 2 weeks for the rest of my life is going to feel like a chore after a few months.

Three days is way too little time. Who here has not gone for three days without checking their email?

Clicking the link sounds like a case for automation to me!

Per your feedback ( along with others ). I changed the default to 30 days instead of two weeks and 7 days instead of 3 days. I've also made it configurable in account settings.

Thanks! It wasn’t clear at all to me where I would have to go to find this information from the home page.

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