I want to make one and say something outrageous in it to scare the crap out of my friends. Like now that I'm dead, I can confess to killing 47 people, or I was responsible for the death of Chris Farley, etc....
that's irrelevant really. i could make the video and die next week. people can view it easily. or i can make the video, still be alive ten, 20, 50 years from now, and record on the new format.
I would lay some massive guilt trips in there, like "To XXXXX: I wish we could've spent more time together, but you always seemed to be too busy. Maybe next time. Oh wait I'm dead. And you're going to hell, so I guess this is goodbye."
lol, you serious? i'd say 99.789% of people who die never made such a video. people die suddenly everyday.
there isn't a correlation dude. this isn't the movies. if someone dies a couple of days after they make such a video, it has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that they made the video.
Macalu and Shaud, I can't believe you're having this conversation. Seriously, look at what you're arguing about.
I think I'm going to go ahead and do this every few months. You never know when an accident could happen, and in that moment when I realize I'm going to die, it would be comforting to know that I didn't take any feelings for my loved ones to the grave with me. That's actually one of my only fears of dying. Not the pain, not what comes after, but just not getting to say some final goodbyes.
Okay so how do you guys that plan on making this video plan on getting your family members to see it when you're dead?
I assume that when I die, someone in my family will get the opportunity to claim my belongings. I'll just keep the video on a disc, in a fairly obviously place, with a message written on it. Something like "Whoever finds this after I'm gone, please watch it." Then the first thing I'll say in the video is "Please make sure that my family and friends all have a chance to see this. Hell, if it's not too late you can play it at my funeral." Or just tell one person that you trust, that you're going to have a disc somewhere in your desk/closet/etc. that they should show to everyone if anything ever happens to you. Just label it accordingly. Seems easy enough.
With my luck, my mom would probably find the video while I was alive and think I was thinking about committing suicide.
I would assume the way to do it would be to make a new video every few years or so anyway, but I also imagine that there would be at least some people who would make a video, put it in a safe place and then forget about it. If I write something down for my family, they should have no trouble reading it regardless of what the future brings (On my shelf here in my office, I have a whole stack of letters from the 1940s written from a seaman to his new bride). I can read them anytime I want. But I do have personal videos right now that I can't watch because they're on VHS, and I don't have a VCR anymore and no way to transfer them to a new format. And if one of those videos was my death video, and I died tomorrow, I don't think my family would be motivated enough to go out and buy a new VCR just to see what I had to say.
That's what I was trying to get across in the first post. Yes. Though I was using a bit of hyperbole (assuming I'm using that word correctly anyway). My daughter seems to like me okay, but she's barely 1 year old. If I died tomorrow, she wouldn't have the understanding or the financial wherewithal to go buy a VCR.
Don't sweat it man...I like the joke.....and I like when he does it on the show....I think it's funny.
