Death.
This would be around the right time to launch into a series of hard-hitting facts or casual jokes about how death is coming for all of us. Well, it is, but that’s not the point. The hardest part that really affects us all is what we think about the least: what happens after we die.
Who will take care of tying up loose ends? What do I want done with my body? Do I want a funeral? What music do I want played at my funeral? Should there be blue walls, or mother-of-pearl ducks on crimson sunset wallpaper?
This is what CAKE is for.
Founders Suelin Chen and Mark Zhang created CAKE to make life after death–at least for your family–easier to bear. It’s hard enough to deal with losing a loved one, but it’s even harder to try and get their affairs in order when you’re not even sure what their preferences are.
Previously called My Exit Strategy, the strangely named CAKE was made to remind people to celebrate life, and make death easier to deal with. Right now the site–and soon to be app–is being beta tested, and allows users to answer various questions about their likes and dislikes. Some are as easy and simple as music preferences at a funeral service. Others ask deeper questions, including whether you’d want to live on in a vegetative state. None of it is delivered in anything more than a simple yes or no question, but it still makes one think of things we’re normally encouraged to put off thinking about.
It seems that in the long run CAKE will be used to allow people to both plan their deaths in an intuitive way, and to pass along profiles to their loved ones via private social media channels.
You can start a profile, try out some questions and find out more on the CAKE website, and the CAKE Blog.
Via HuffPost