Apple needs to get better at dying

Computerworld ^ | Aug 29, 2016 5:53 AM PT | By Jonny Evans

[zeugma]

It is also about the wishes of the deceased. If no provision is made for access, no business wants the associated liability without having government sanction of their actions. There is a tremendous potential liability here. I know it sounds heartless of the company, but they have to deal with the law and potential risks as it exists.

Unfortunately, bad things happen to good people. I do hope they are able to recover their son's art. It will just likely take time.

[roadcat]

In the future, when I die, I'm going to have a list of passwords in my will for my executor so he doesn't have to do any of this.

Choose your executor wisely. Recently a friend of mine died. He had made his nephew his executor. The nephew screwed up everything, losing my friend's last instructions and will. It was a fiasco, including the burial. In my case, my wife and I will act on each other's behalf, and know of each other's common passwords. Our daughters know how to access our trust documents that have instructions inside, and have been advised of our possessions and death disposal. We don't necessarily trust our lawyers to be executors, and want family to handle our affairs. In your case, be sure to leave instructions in more than one pair of hands.