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I’ve been thinking about recording a final meassage to be played in the event of my death.
What would you say? I would just say exactly what Kirk says in his video, preferably dressed as JTK.
What ‘media’ should I use?
Will VHS be around in 40 years? I’d hate to have my final message found on an unusable format.
If anyone cared enough, they’d find a way to play anything you record.
We can still play vinyl records, if you want to make a recording on that.
What’s wrong with the good old fashioned written bit that you get someone else to read?
Record it on DVD, then hide it in a Chinese puzzle box, which is buried behind a secret panel in the wall of a mansion, which can only be found after solving a fiendish substitution cipher, that is assembled from a scavenger hunt of letters, that the family will be guided to, by your lawyer sending out letters and emails, at the rate of one per day, for a year.
Or make a hologram.
AKA Windows Vista.
Did you read about that apt in NYC that was like that?
Therein lies the problem. I’m pretty sure that I need something that will be easy to play.
I don’t own a VCR anymore. Maybe I’ll record a video and store it on my computer.
I want the breathtakingly-perfect worldwide audio system that the Vogons used to announce their demolition of the earth. What I would say would be a mystery until the moment.
Ehh, just make a mix tape.
Does ‘burning something into the surface of the moon with a giant laser in large enough letters to be legible from earth’ count as a medium?
If it does, ‘Ha, Ha!’.
I probably would have recommended appearing to your family as an apparition to deliver the message, but looking at how well that worked out for Hamlet’s family…
I’ve always been kind of spooked by those recordings that begin with the person looking into the camera and saying something along the lines of By the time you see this, I will be dead. Like the public awareness message Yul Brynner made about smoking and lung cancer (which he died of).
Yeah, I did. Though my actual inspiration for my post was the National Treasure movies.
If you do that, also rig up your 'puter to auto delete any really wacky porn if someone attempts to view it without entering a password. 
I think if I was a Star ship Captain and needed to provide secret destruction codes or something then I would do this. Since I’m not, I can’t even imagine bringing myself to do this. I’d much rather smile in person, say I love you, and then perish. Hopefully while in fairly decent health and not a bed-ridden vegetable.
“Tree hunnert fifty gees. . . unda da dubba-yuh.”
The location of the holy grail is the castle AAAAaaahhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrgg.
I would put it on my gravestone.
“See, I told you I was sick.”
Regards,
Shodan
I just want to be buried face-down so everyone can kiss my ass!
(stolen from That 70’s Show)
The answer to 14 k of g in an f p d is… dies
Naw, I’d probably just do something boring and tell my family I love them, and when they die to bring pie. (Oh no, two tired SDMB cliches in one post!)
Oh, and GorillaMan, I lol’d. (now a 4chan meme. Somebody alert the internet police!)