Digital Accounts After Death

Even this one? “ you die and haven't gone through the complication of setting up a way for your heirs to gain control of your accounts.”

I'm very sorry to hear that, I hope you're doing well now.I hope you don't mind me asking a (maybe quite stupid) question. What if we don't have the account credentials of our loved ones, what would we do in this case? With all that historical data laying around when people pass away, I wonder if there's a standard procedure one can follow to handle those data.

Another solution is to share the data with friends and family why you are living. Most services and passwords can go with you to the grave no dramas. Bank accounts etc. would be covered by a will. Access to domains etc.: Personal blog, who cares (just author in Github then someone can grab the source if they want) anything valuable domain wise should be owned by a company. That company should have procedures if you die and probably will share passwords between trusted owners or employees.

Can you offer some examples, besides financial accounts, of things that a person would prevent others from accessing while alive and grant access upon death? In sifting through the list of things in my password manager, none of them (besides finances) seem to have this quality. Seems like anything that should be seen by family after death could be seen by them before death as well.

When someone dies, you don't get even one extra second to access the documents and information they meant to share it with you.Trying to fix this problem with Eternal Vault.Link: https://eternalvault.app

Please provide an encrypted file with all of your emails, pictures and videos of you (including any you might be naked in), scans of any letters, birthday cards, etc you might have. And then post a link to a service which will provide the encryption key once you die.If you have adult children/family, make sure they do the same.

Why this doesn't exist a service? I would pay for this. I guess the complexity is giving a third party all the credentials your digital life + sensitive documents, but I would definitely pay for something that allows my family to be notified and handle all my matters in case I'm gone.

There was a previous discussion on how to leave critical info for your heirs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16039830

No.Things that really matter (banks, etc.) have well-established next-of-kin processes. You can cause problems if you subvert them, as there's processes to go through to prove who might have claim to the estate and if necessary divide it between multiple parties. Similarly, subscriptions will just bounce once you inform the banks of the death and they freeze further transactions as part of said process. In my experience, your next of kin don't want to be dealing with cancelling a bu

My brother passed away very suddenly a few years ago, and I was put in charge of wrapping up and archiving his "digital" life. We were very lucky that we had access to a recovery email for his main gmail account (as well as a couple of passwords that his partner knew) and was able to access and archive virtually all data we could think of (services like Google Takeout were invaluable). I realized that if this had happened to me, it would have been virtually impossible to do, as all my