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I've been thinking about this recently regarding photos – Would be sad to lose a life's worth of photos just because someone can't get into your phone.

In a similar, but different vein, I've recently found interesting to think about how all the photos of yourself tend to live on other people's phones – whereas photos on your own tend to be of places and other people.

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People in general should think more about how they manage their photos. It does take some real thought now that the ubiquity of cameras means that everyone takes exponentially more photos than, say, two decades ago. I suspect that you're right: most people just have them unorganized on their phone, rolling them over to a new phone with more storage every couple of years. So, even without death, the photos are potentially gone whenever they lose or break their phone. I guess Google and Apple have turned this into a business opportunity by backing up photos to Drive and iCloud by default in Android and iOS, and then selling more storage space when it inevitably fills up.

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