Email A. D.

In the old days... oh say well, depending on the person, yesterday, after someone died their relatives would have the unhappy job of deciding what to do with all their worldly goods. Along with that came the letters and pictures that the person left behind, almost an essence of who they were and what the cared about. But today it's all about the email. Email that is password protected. Will the secret love affairs that used to come out or that curious picture that no one can place be a thing of the past? I wonder what the rules are about email after death. Will Yahoo or Google open up an email box of a relative who has an untimely death? And will we ever know if someone dies if the only record of the relationship was by email?

Will new laws be passed? Will new arrangements be made? Along with telling you where the money is hidden, will grandma give you the password to her account?