I hope you're not in too bad of a mood already, because this post is less than cheerful.
I've been thinking recently about what would happen to the knowledge I have accrued if I were to die an untimely death. There are a thousand things - from interesting facts/skills to sentimental feelings - I want to say to a whole bunch of different people, but I don't have the time to tell while I live.
My solution is a collection of audio recordings (or video or text) tagged for dissemination to various people and locations if I die unexpectedly. Groups of people can be nested, getting narrower and narrower. For example, I might record a message for broadcast to everybody who might be at all interested, a message for people that knew me, a message for people at my school, &c. If later in my life (after the initial recording set) I discover new information that deserves a mention, I would record an addendum for the appropriate message, stating the date on which it was added.
If I choose to actually set this up (which is kind of unlikely), I'll probably have some sort of deadman's switch that sends instructions to my immediate family on how to disseminate the recordings and contact information on people who have special messages tagged for them. That instruction document would, of course, also contain the members of each special group and extra steps required to release the appropriate recordings in certain places (like online communities).
This is probably an actually good way to send "last wishes" as well.
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