I do understand what you're saying. But people can and do give out the passwords anyway, and if they don't, family may learn the password through other ways, including just trying passwords.

I don't feel that implementing this suggestion would be akin to saying that you support sharing of passwords. Indeed, I know that in a lot of cases people are comforted by the thought that someone is caring for the journal of someone they remember dearly.

As I commented above, I like the idea of making it so only comments made after the memorial status was granted could be deleted. As for posting spam, how about prohibiting commenting in any journal other than their own? (since I believe posting in any journal is already prohibited, right? If not, it probably should be.)

And as for accounts not automatically becoming memorial after you die - I know that. But if someone has died and a friend asks for their account to be memorialised, then it's probably going to happen whether the account owner wanted it or not (unless, perhaps, it's clearly outlined that they don't). Right now, I probably wouldn't want it to happen, and then that carries with it the problems that you've already outlined, probably leading to my account getting suspended some time after I die.

If we could make sure memorial accounts were properly secured in such a way that it's still possible for someone to partially take care of it after the owner's death, then I would *want* my account to be memorialised.