Legacy Locker isn't the only new company helping techies plan for death in the digital age.

CNN: New services promise online life after death

Eddie Lopez is the kind of tech-savvy guy for which a service such as Legacy Locker was made.

CNN: New services promise online life after death

"I hope Legacy Locker and similar services can address these privacy-security concerns with some real-world solutions, " he said.

CNN: New services promise online life after death

If someone contacts Legacy Locker to report a client's death, the service will send the customer four e-mails in 48 hours.

CNN: New services promise online life after death

The founders of Entrustet and Legacy Locker agree their potential customers need to overcome a mental barrier before they take the plunge.

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If there's no response, Legacy Locker will then contact the people the client listed as verifiers in the event of his or her death.

CNN: New services promise online life after death

"I do think this is something people should be really considering these days, " Lopez told CNN when asked about services such as Legacy Locker.

CNN: New services promise online life after death

Legacy Locker allows users to set up a kind of online will, with beneficiaries that would receive the customer's account information and passwords after they die.

CNN: New services promise online life after death

Lopez would prefer to entrust half of his digital-security information to a service such as Legacy Locker and the other half to family members, so that each side's information would be useless without the other's.

CNN: New services promise online life after death