If I died today, nobody would know how to get into my Dreamhost account which hosts a bunch of websites, commercial and not. The registrations would expire, and douchebag generic Google ad sites would take over. The would would have 10 or so more shitty worthless websites. I really gotta work something out with that, huh…
Here’s an interesting question: should relatives read the emails of a deceased? I say only if it was a violent death or foul play is heavily suspected. Though I am a firm believer that it all just ends and then you rot in the ground, I would not wish it upon ANYONE to open up the offensive abyss that is my email account – for the sake of their wellbeing, not my reputation.