Automated messaging system survivor

An automated messaging system (AMS) method for creating, archiving, and distributing messages of a user to recipients identified by the user after the user's death, the method comprising the steps of:

• providing a data communications exchange facility interconnecting a user device, recipient devices, and a legacy server;
• including in the legacy server a processor interconnected with a main semiconductor memory;
• providing a mass storage device, the mass storage device including a database for saving legacy information;
• the legacy server enrolling a user in the AMS and soliciting legacy information from the user, the legacy information including a plurality of personalized messages directed to a plurality of recipients, each message associated with a particular recipient and each message associated with a particular delivery date;
• the legacy server periodically performing a death check via querying a public records Internet service to determine if the user is deceased;
• and,
• the legacy server entering a production mode for the user when the death check indicates the user is deceased;
• wherein production mode is a precursor to message delivery and during production mode the legacy server distributes the user's messages to the devices of the intended recipients on the dates specified by the user.