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There's a service named Everplans that walks you through passwords, important documents, making an end of life plan, other stuff. They released a whole book on it that I haven't finished yet.

You setup contacts in the app and the contacts confirm they want to be involved. They receive a special link (or some other access method, I can't remember) and when you die, your contacts can say "(person) died, give me access to their information."

A confirmation is sent to the person that setup the account, they have a pre-determined amount of time to block the request. If the request is ignored the data is released to either some or all contacts. It's pretty slick but I would be terrified to start a business like that, with something like this you can't just let the business go under if things aren't going well.




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