Exactly. If something should happen to you the enemy WILL come nosing around in your stuff, and HE'S the one who's moralistic.
Yahoo should tell these people that they've already seen all this young man's email that he wanted them to see.
I agree with you. If he had wanted people to have access he would have left his password. Particularly being a soldier in harm's way.
There is definitely something not being mentioned about the family's desire to go through their adult son's private things.
If I were to drop dead, I would hope my isp simply deletes my account. My family should also just reformat my laptop. The family finances are backed up to disk frequently. (Not that that would help, my husband has no clue how to download transactions into Quicken or pay a bill!) All my passwords to anything that might be necessary are in an encrypted file, also backed up to disk, with instructions. And I'm not going into a life threatening situation each day, nor do I have anything of particular interest saved. It's just private.
This family's request just doesn't pass the smell test.