{
  "slug": "posthumous-identity",
  "title": "Nobody plans for the identity that outlives its owner",
  "summary": "Death does not revoke digital authority. Executors are locked out, impostors are not, and the accounts stay live for months.",
  "lede": "An executor arrives at a bank with a death certificate and a court appointment and is asked for a password. Meanwhile the accounts nobody can reach are perfectly reachable by someone else. Death ends a life, and it does not end a single digital authority.",
  "date": "2026-09-27",
  "reading_time": "17 min read",
  "category": "Consumer",
  "tags": [
    "digital estate",
    "posthumous identity",
    "executor access",
    "account revocation",
    "deepfake of deceased",
    "succession",
    "legacy contact"
  ],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Posthumous%20Identity/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/posthumous-identity.html",
  "wordcount": 4432,
  "related": [
    "dormant-account-takeover",
    "offboarding-orphaned-authority",
    "revocation-that-propagates"
  ],
  "schema": "Article"
}