Do remember, though: we don't give out passwords. Ever. So if you want your friend or loved one to manage your account after your death, you have to give them the password now, which in a way is us saying that we support sharing of passwords (if you take this suggestion to the logical extreme).
The more I think about this suggestion, the more I hate it for that reason exactly. We originally blocked logins to memorial accounts because I've see one too many cases of someone breaking into a memorial account and gutting it, and the friends and loved ones of that person can never get that back. (Imagine how it would feel for your friends to see your account posting Russian pornbot spam after your death.)
On LJ, I had to suspend memorial accounts that had been broken into and cleaned out, or broken into and used to post spam all the time, because those accounts could never again be secured, and those friends would never be able to visit their friend's journal again. I'd say that was about ten to fifteen times as common as someone contacting us because there was an unpleasant comment in the account. (With the advent of the spam invasion on LJ, I'm sure that frequency has flipped by now, but I seriously doubt we'll get to the point where spam comments to memorial accounts become more than a few manual deletions a week, tops, for a long time. Knock wood.)
Also remember, your account doesn't automatically become memorial when you die. Someone has to contact us to get us to flip the memorial flag. So if you want your friend to be able to keep logging into your account and deleting comments that you wouldn't want there, just don't have the account set to memorial. But you'd have to give them the password before your death (or in your will or something), and I get twitchy whenever we start discussing any kind of program that will encourage people to do that.
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The more I think about this suggestion, the more I hate it for that reason exactly. We originally blocked logins to memorial accounts because I've see one too many cases of someone breaking into a memorial account and gutting it, and the friends and loved ones of that person can never get that back. (Imagine how it would feel for your friends to see your account posting Russian pornbot spam after your death.)
On LJ, I had to suspend memorial accounts that had been broken into and cleaned out, or broken into and used to post spam all the time, because those accounts could never again be secured, and those friends would never be able to visit their friend's journal again. I'd say that was about ten to fifteen times as common as someone contacting us because there was an unpleasant comment in the account. (With the advent of the spam invasion on LJ, I'm sure that frequency has flipped by now, but I seriously doubt we'll get to the point where spam comments to memorial accounts become more than a few manual deletions a week, tops, for a long time. Knock wood.)
Also remember, your account doesn't automatically become memorial when you die. Someone has to contact us to get us to flip the memorial flag. So if you want your friend to be able to keep logging into your account and deleting comments that you wouldn't want there, just don't have the account set to memorial. But you'd have to give them the password before your death (or in your will or something), and I get twitchy whenever we start discussing any kind of program that will encourage people to do that.