I don't have anything codified, but I'm 90% sure that if anything happened to me, my brother would go through my stuff and retrieve every drive from my devices.

I don't have anything codified, but I'm 90% sure that if anything happened to me, my brother would go through my stuff and retrieve every drive from my devices. What happens after that, I've no clue. I've never talked to him about this, but I ought to do it the next time I see him in person. At some point I plan on handing him a drive containing my backups just in case, but I'm unsure about whether to encrypt it or not, nor have I considered how he could access my password manager for my active accounts if anything goes wrong. --- If you'll excuse the self-promotion I very recently wrote a blog post about how backing up old files has suddenly felt melancholic, and I briefly mention some offhand thoughts about data after death. https://callmeo.live/blog/the-melancholy-of-file-backups https://callmeo.live/blog/the-melancholy-of-file-backups