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Practical writing on digital estates: finding accounts, what your executor will actually face, and how to leave less detective work behind.
Your digital estate: the problem nobody warns your family about
When someone dies, the people left behind become detectives. What a digital estate is, why it is so hard to settle, the options that actually exist, and how to leave a map instead of a mystery.
The digital legacy graveyard: five services that promised forever
Lantern, Deathswitch, Legacy Locker, Beyond, Farewill: what happens to end-of-life services over time, and what that means for where you keep your plans.
How to find every account someone owned: a working checklist
A practical, category-by-category checklist for executors and families trying to reconstruct someone's financial and digital life, with per-country notes.
Password managers hold the keys. Your executor needs the map.
What 1Password, Bitwarden, Apple and Google actually hand over after a death, what they do not, and why a password manager alone is not an estate plan.
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