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People having Yahoo or similar email addys have them for a reason--primarily, privacy; secondarily, universality [being able to access easily via the web].

I have to side with Yahoo. Unless the owner of the email address has granted someone else account access, no one else should have access. It would be no different than finding the deceased had a bank account and a relative other than the 'beneficiary' tried to claim access due to blood-relationship.

Yahoo has a privacy policy. The deceased signed up to Yahoo and agreed to that policy. The parents, aunt, 2nd cousin on mother's side, nor anyone else, have an automatic right to access the man's account.

privacy is a term of the contractual obligation between the deceased user and Yahoo. next of kin do not inherit any rights to this account.

I do too....

Mr. Ellsworth, if you happen to see this...give it up. Do not be a party to forcing an honorable company into breaking it's promise to all of it's customers, including Justin. We are all sorry for your loss and pray that your pain will be eased and are confident that in time, it will. Everybody here honors Justin for the hero he is, but forcing Yahoo to do what it said it would not do will help neither you, Justin or anyone else. You have no idea what the messages contain, most certainly a bunch of "junk" mail that we all are plagued by, maybe a message to or from loved ones, but there is a chance that there will be messages that will hurt more than comfort.

Please reconsider your challenge to break into Justin's email account and let the matter rest with Justin.