Signal Scheduled delivery of messages years after death

Summary

This signal concerns the Afterlife service, which lets users schedule greetings to loved ones that will arrive years in the future. The messages are delivered only after the sender is no longer alive. Sitra cites the service itself, dated April 2025. Posthumous contact becomes a matter of planning and scheduling rather than a one-off farewell. Relatives may receive messages on chosen dates long after the death, extending the sender's presence in their lives. Sitra counts it among the real-world signals behind an imagined future column on preparing for dying and the afterlife.