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There are several services that securely store passwords, sending them to designated people after a user's death. Some of these send the customer an email from time to time, prompting to confirm that that person is still alive. Failure to respond to multiple emails makes the service provider assume that the person is deceased and they will disclose the passwords as previously requested. A company may require two verifiers who both must confirm the death, as well as providing a death certificate, before any passwords will be disclosed.<ref name="Duffy20122">PCMag. (2012, October 8). ''Get organized: Passing on your passwords.'' https://www.pcmag.com/archive/get-organized-passing-on-your-passwords-303572</ref>

===Digital inheritance serviceservices===

There are services that facilitate passing social accounts and digital cryptocurrencies to the beneficiaries after one's passing. They allow users to connect their social accounts, file storage services, and bitcoin wallets to one "vault". The upside of such an approach is that no additional transfer of assets is necessary since transfer is happening on the connected service provider's side, thus reducingkeeping risks to the minimum. <ref>{{CiteConley, C. (2020, January). Digital inheritance. ''OUCH!'' web|url=https://www.sans.org/security-awareness-trainingnewsletters/resourcesouch/digital-inheritance|access-date=2020-11-02|website=www.sans.org}}/</ref>

===Responsibility of benefactors===