My father died of brain caner in 2010, his email still works and I figured out his password to log in. He got 11,000+ messages since 9&#x2F;1&#x2F;2010 mostly junk but I noticed a few people were still sending him updates about Telephone Pioneers that got sick or died. He used to work for AT&amp;T so I linked to his obituary and told them that he passed away.<p>He had a Yahoo email but it got deleted for not being accessed in a long time. He used it to play Java based games like Pool and other stuff at Yahoo Games.<p>He never got into social networks, but I could read invites from people trying to invite him after he passed away, not understanding that he is dead.<p>He had first initial middle initial last name for his email at sbcglobal.net so some other people with the same initials accidentally entered his email into websites and email lists.<p>My mother doesn&#x27;t get the Internet anymore and stopped using an IBM Windows XP PC long ago. So I got permission to read her email on my PC and get my dad&#x27;s email as soon as I figured out what his password was.<p>There are so many things that require an Internet connection these days, and since she doesn&#x27;t have Internet I have to sign her online using my PC.<p>I had a friend who killed himself in 1999, had two different Yahoo accounts and I guessed the questions to reset his passwords, it asked what his mother&#x27;s original middle name was. I gave access to the accounts to his widow to see if she could contact the people he talked to about his death. Some of them didn&#x27;t want to believe her, she gave the address of the cemetery where his grave was. I am sure over time those email accounts were deleted due to inactivity by Yahoo as well. I tried to get him a job, and he got recruiter emails and he didn&#x27;t read any of them, just stuffed them into a jobs folder.