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PostMortem — Generates Packets of Useful Information for Partners and Dependents to be Opened Upon Death
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*PostMortem* works with `Avendesora <https://avendesora.readthedocs.io>`_ to
produce packets of information for partners and dependents to help them carry on
after your death or incapacitation.  Primarily *PostMortem* queries *Avendesora*
to produce an encrypted document that contains information about all of your
essential accounts including security credentials such as usernames and
passcodes. It also can include related pre-prepared documents such as the legal
documents that establish and control your estate.

Your partners and dependents do not need *PostMortem* or *Avendesora* to access
their documents, however they must be capable of using *GPG* and have a GPG
encryption key.  However, if they do use happen to use *Avendesora*, they can
import the accounts you shared with them directly into *Avendesora*.
You can download and install the latest stable version of the code from `PyPI
<https://pypi.python.org>`_ using::

    pip3 install --user --upgrade postmortem

You can find the latest development version of the source code on
`Github <https://github.com/KenKundert/postmortem>`_.

| Enjoy,
|     -Ken


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   Readme File <README>