The Mudgee Chamber of Commerce on Thursday hosted the soft launch of BioJars - founded by Suke Ridler - a way to record a person's life story, memories, and wisdom, along with organising their affairs.
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With a bustling CV that includes motivational speaking and establishing Short Sheep Micro-Winery, Suke - who lives locally and in Sydney - developed the concept after working through difficult issues surrounding her parents' and relative's financial, healthcare and wellbeing wishes.
As well as a brush with her own mortality when she was air-lifted to the city in septic shock.
"What was going through my mind was 'I'm leaving a complete mess'," she said.
"I haven't written a life story and I haven't left messages for my kids when they've reached key milestones in their lives."
Suke said that this is the "legacy" that people leave and in an age when there's no shortage of information it's important to sort the wheat from the chaff.
"We all have a legacy to leave, it's just generally not presented or curated," she said.
"Before the explosion of the internet it was difficult to find information about anyone, now there's too much information, the world produces 2.3 trillion gigabytes of data daily.
"We're all living with a huge digital footprint, both good and bad, yet if you lost someone today would you have a complete story of their life?"
Suke added that "social media profiles aren't permanent" and when she went looking for a way to capture emotional and physical things and to organise her affairs in such a way, she couldn't find one.
So over two years she worked to develop a way to build a life bio which transitions into a legacy bio, that you choose when and who you share it with.
"Capturing your memories and your things so that they're in one place will be so important to those looking after you," she said.
BioJars has two partner organisations, the McGrath Foundation and - fittingly - Legacy Australia. The latter see it as a way to capture veteran's life stories.
Find out more at biojars.com