App allows Mexicans to ‘reach out after death’

MEXICO CITY: Offering a welcoming voice from past the grave, a Mexican app has been launched to retailer messages and final needs for customers to share with family members after their loss of life.

“Mexicans chortle at death, nevertheless it’s arduous for them to speak about it,” stated Miguel Farrell, the creator of Previous Submit.

The app “means that you can go away your issues to ensure that this second that can arrive whenever you least anticipate it,” he informed AFP.

Whereas Mexicans fortunately settle for a present of a sugar cranium with their identify on it for the annual Day of the Lifeless pageant, they’re typically much less snug discussing the difficulty, specifically inheritance.

The app permits a father in good well being for instance to report congratulatory messages for his youngsters to listen to a number of years later after they graduate, in case he dies within the meantime.

It allows customers to depart directions resembling preferences for his or her funeral or administration of financial institution accounts and social media accounts.

Previous Submit retains this content material within the type of a non-fungible token (NFT) — a digital certificates of possession that makes use of the blockchain expertise behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

Its creator emphasizes that the app, which prices $19 a yr, can not change a will, which the overwhelming majority of Mexicans do not need, in response to the Mexico Metropolis notaries affiliation.

The content material “has no authorized worth nevertheless it has a vital symbolic worth,” Farrell stated.