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# :material-heart-pulse: Check Alive
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**Check Alive** is the plugin's "are you still around?" mechanism. It is available in **advanced mode**.
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*Advanced mode exposes Check Alive and the other fine-grained parameters.*
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## What it does
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Check Alive is a **date you set, always earlier than your delivery date**. While that date is still in the future, nothing special happens: ordinary changes just refresh the will, anticipated by one day. Once the date has passed, the plugin tells you that the *Check Alive threshold has passed* and that you have to **invalidate your old will**, so that a new one, with a later delivery date, can replace it — because you are evidently still alive.
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*The Check Alive can be a date, or a distance from today.*
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In the **Raw** field you can also type a distance from today: `30d` is 30 days from today, `1y` is one year from today. Only days (`d`) and years (`y`) are accepted. By default the Check Alive is set 30 days from today and the delivery date one year from today.
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## Example
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You build your will on **1 January 2027** with the delivery date on **1 January 2029**, and set Check Alive to **1 July 2027**.
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| What you do | What happens |
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| You use Electrum before 1 July 2027 | Nothing special — the Check Alive date is still ahead. If something changed, the will is refreshed and anticipated by one day |
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| The plugin checks your will after 1 July 2027 | The date has passed: the plugin asks you to **invalidate your old will** and sign a new one with a later date |
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| You stop using Electrum altogether | Nothing postpones the will. On the delivery date, the Will-Executors broadcast it |
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If you accept the prompt when it comes, the will is pushed out and never executed. If you stop, the last date stands.
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## Calendar reminders
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In advanced mode the plugin can export **`.ics` calendar reminders**, spread between the Check Alive date and the delivery date: 3 by default, up to 5. The last one falls the day before the delivery date, so you are reminded before it is too late.
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!!! warning "A date in the past does not switch it off"
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In advanced mode, a Check Alive **date in the past** counts as a threshold that has already passed: the plugin asks you to invalidate your will straight away. To test the plugin with a delivery time only a few hours away, use **basic mode** instead: there Check Alive is hidden and inactive, and never forces a postponement.
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!!! warning "Postponing is not free"
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Invalidating the previously committed transaction is an on-chain transaction and costs a miner fee. See [Postponing vs anticipating](updating.md#postponing-vs-anticipating).
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