Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.etla.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Good or bad idea Date: 15 Jun 2015 15:14:58 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net fdgBoxdZ3hduFGy6V5rmOg8eRoR6iyc5RWrE2hR7NonjbWU09t Cancel-Lock: sha1:NDMUg8VPCM27vxmCwOIW2mrjOGo= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:76667 On 2015-06-15, John wrote: [17 lines snipped] > If the survivor needs or likes an account, let them just *use* it. I > use my wife's email account after three years. I don't send anything > from it I just keep it because it's a nice name and I think it would > be creepy to let anyone else have it. My mother still uses my 10-years-dead father's AOL account, for the same reasons as you. > With the money accounts in banks, you should enable the surviving > spouse to be able to access those online to drain them into her > accounts. If she can do that, and stop or move any direct debits and > standing orders then it doesn't *matter* whether the account is closed > or not. There's a process for this already; it's called "probate". -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 20th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.