I heard a number of stories of people passing away, and their loved ones have to figure out how to navigate their digital “estate”. Things like email credentials, bank accounts, crypto wallets, logins for personal devices, etc. For example, I have a good friend whose husband passed away unexpectedly, and she couldn’t get Apple to unlock his laptop for months, until she provided a death certificate and jumped through additional hoops.

I fell down a rabbit hole of checklists, methods, and technology, and was curious what other people were doing to leave digital assets behind. I’m looking for something that will be privacy-oriented, but still provide access to people who may not be very tech-savvy.

What do other people do? Especially from a technology perspective?

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[–] 5 points 5 days ago*

I have a notebook stashed that has all my accounts and passwords. Told the hubs about it. Should be enough, I dont make accounts willy nilly, so what is important is logged so if I drop dead tomorrow my family can have access without too much stress. It really seems like the simplest way, for my simple accounts. I dont know my lemmy password though haha. I ever lose this device, it's just gonna be dead.

My father died the begining of this year, getting his passwords was a nightmare. Side note, the fucker was on 4chan. gross. But pen and paper are mostly reliable, barring disasters.

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