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Real life death and Second Life

February 29, 2008 by Metaverse Journal Editor Leave a Comment

Over recent months Linden Lab have stepped up their output of tutorials and knowledgebase articles – nothing illustrates that more than two new additions.

The first is: Death and Other “First Life” Worries. The key issue here is if you have someone threaten suicide in-world or you’re concerned in some other way about their welfare and you want to find out their RL details to ensure they’re ok. Linden Lab have firmly stated that providing one person’s details to another violates their privacy policy. That I can see but surely some sort of escalation mechanism with Linden Lab as the intermediary would be useful?

The second knowledgebase article is: How do I bequeath my Second Life account and assets to another Resident if I die in real life?

Essentially, you’ll need to have specified in your will the real-life name of the person you want your Second Life assets to go to or any instructions on notifying people on your in-world friends list. I have money on someone out there already developing a business model for a virtual world / real world funeral and estate planning service.

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Filed Under: General News, Health, The Archive, Virtual Worlds Tagged With: death, lindenlab

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  1. Vint Falken says

    March 1, 2008 at 12:57 am

    Both say ‘invalid string’ when trying to access. ๐Ÿ™

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  2. Vint Falken says

    February 29, 2008 at 9:57 am

    Both say ‘invalid string’ when trying to access. ๐Ÿ™

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  3. Lowell Cremorne says

    March 1, 2008 at 7:11 am

    Oops! Thanks Vint – now fixed ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  4. Lowell Cremorne says

    February 29, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Oops! Thanks Vint – now fixed ๐Ÿ˜‰

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  5. Wolfie Rankin says

    March 17, 2008 at 11:38 pm

    I have often wondered about that.

    What if you’re with a very sick friend, and lets face it, a lot of people use SL because they’ve had serious illness… what if they’re just *there* and all you see is “Help, I think it’s my heart, help me” ?

    If they won’t let people have other peoples details, that’s fine… but perhaps officers at least should have a red button we could push for emergencies, which would contact someone in charge which could call that persons emergency service in a crisis.

    Wolfie!

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