| >As for confidential data, it should be encrypted at rest, so that the decryption key disappears along with the deceased. > That is not an answer solution to many issues. What happens to memory in our brain when we die? What about the things that only we know and never tell anyone else? Isn't that a problem? Should we make an attempt to recover a person's memories from their corpse? We've been dealing with irrevocable losses upon death ever since humans started doing other things besides eating and reproducing. Our online passwords and porn stashes are, generally, just another item on the list of things that die with us. ---- My aunt, who was very much like a foster mother to me, died this year after spending 4 months in a comatose/vegetative state. Before that she had suffered a stroke which rendered her unable to write anything. So for the last couple years of her life, she was unable to leave behind her thoughts (I deeply regret not helping her use her iPad for that), and not even able to tell her family anything in the last few months, despite being able to see us and hear us. We don't even have any recent pictures of her, let alone videos. I'm thinking of contacting her phone company and requesting if they could provide us with a recording from a random call, just so we can listen to her voice, but I doubt they will oblige. |