If someone dies, how does the person’s family cancel subscriptions like Netflix or Spotify if they don’t have access to the person’s e-mail?
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When my dad died in 2007, he had the mail in kind of Netflix, but my mom was also on the account, so they just let her cancel it.
One interesting thing was he had a credit card with about $5k on it. He had more than enough money to pay that off, but he died o Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, which is human spongiform encephalopathy, not to be confused with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (Mad Cow Disease). He had run up that total buying old postcards and graded coins on eBay. I called the credit card company, gave them the death certificate information, and they asked me to mail them a copy. About 2 weeks go by and we get a letter from them saying that the account is closed (my mom wasn’t on this one) and that the balance was zero and we had no need to pay anything from his estate. If my mom had been on the account, she would’ve had to have paid it. I don’t know if that’s normal, but we were very happy to get the letter since his hospital bill was $278k for 45 days in two different hospitals (he died at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta (Druid Hills).
However, a month after he died, we call Emory and ask them when we could expect a bill so we could come up with a plan for how to pay it off and how much they would want each month and for how long. Nope, they told us that since he had died they would just write off the debt.
My mom had expected to have to mortgage the house to pay the debt.
I’m not sure if this helps, but I’m missing him pretty bad tonight, and I just needed to type this out. Even thought it’s been 13 years, the task of mourning someone you truly love diminishes, but is never extinguished.
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