I wonder if congress would import the legal framework from bank accounts to online accounts.
Hearing about distant acquaintances deaths on Twitter or Facebook won't be a big deal when I'm driving my flying car or plugging my iPhone into my brainstem in 40 years time.
Maybe you weren't being serious, but I don't really see how technological advancements of that sort are going to make people any more comfortable being confronted with the fact of their mortality.