Message from beyond the grave? There’s an app for that.

Ever wondered what your last status update will be? Wanted to leave a lasting video message from beyond the grave?

Thanks to “if i die”, a new Facebook app by Willook, this dream has now become a reality.

The app requires you to record either a video message or wall post and appoint three trustees who confirm your passing and activate your message from the grave.

Watch a promotional video from Willook:

This is the latest development from Israel based startup Willook, a specialist in ‘time capsule’ services and products. The company is made up of a team of investors, psychologists, educators and programmers from across the world.

Screenshot from the Facebook app

Online reaction to the app has been mixed so far.  Readers on the UK’s Daily Mail have expressed concern about the potential for it to encourage suicides. One commenter wrote:

“This needs to be stopped right now – kids and young adults have in the past been misled into this false glorification of the ‘RIP’ trends and ‘walls’ have encouraged the misinformed to take their own lives, just look at the Bridgend suicides if you want proof. Sending messages from the grave is so so wrong. Another reader voiced the term ‘sick’ it is highly appropriate”

- SJAhearne, WIGAN UK,

Would you leave a message from the grave for your loved ones? The team here at Gomo are divided. But for those who always ‘have the last word’, this app might be what they’ve been waiting for…