assorted journaling questions

Suf's Burn all my journals if I die and homepage copy inspired me to type out a bunch of questions on the topic: How do your physical and digital footprints differ? How much more brilliant can your life be if you choose to continue to journal for the rest of it? If the worst that the entirety of your life can be treated as is "garbage", how much upside does that leave? Are you regularly discovering what loved ones would care about reading from your private thoughts after you're gone? How would you want any given person to treat your journals and notebooks once you're gone, let alone specific people? How can you get your journals into the hands of people that will consider it more than just "meaningless paraphernalia"? Whether you are okay or not with people picking up and reading your journals as it stands, what does that say about the words inside? How can you encourage the allocation of accumulated, tangible traces of your entirely private thoughts to readers that can make the best…