Death is always a profoundly emotional occurrence and the time
following it can be complicated and involve many laws and
regulations. A person lives and works through their entire lives
and will build up possessions and valuables, and they could
potentially also have agreements and contracts with certain
entities. The most likely one of these would be a bank, where they
would hold an account. Upon their death though, possessions and
arrangements will no longer be of use to them. The question arises
then regarding what is required with these possessions and more
specifically to this article, accounts. In the end, they were still
the belonging of the individual, and no one has a right to them
except those who they have been assigned to through wills (or in
the case of absence of a will, there will be other means to split
an estate) or perhaps their creditors to some extent.