Do you really want to live forever?

A twitter app which will record people's personalities based on their tweets, and then continue to tweet for them when they pass on? Does it get any creepier than that?

"The LivesOn application will keep tweeting after you pass on. The service will utilize advanced analysis of your main Twitter feed, to carefully select appropriate subjects, likes, or articles that would have been likely to interest you, posting them on your behalf for your friends to read."

What happened to, once your heart stops beating you are dead?

I always find it a tad bit creepy when people post on deceased members' Facebook pages. Yes, they are no longer alive, so do yo really have to tell them, "So sorry to hear you died"? Will they reach beyond the grave and write back, "Thank you for your condolences"?

We only have one life to live, besides for cats who supposedly have nine lives. We are taught to live life to the fullest, take chances, spend each day like it's your last, etc. And one it's over, it's over.

So why would you want an artificial program continuing your supposed life for you?

There are movies and books like "P.S. I love you" where a dying husband writes letters to his wife and schedules them to be delivered after he dies. It is sweet and poignant and we cry and say how sad he died but how nice it is for the wife that she still has a part of him, like he is there with her.

A person may 'live on' after their death, whether or not they had the foresight to reach beyond the grave and let loved ones know that they are still around.

But keeping up your twitter feed once you pass on- I think that is taking it a little too far.

I think this may fall under 'no extraordinary measures'.

Happy Tweeting.