I read this article the other day and it put me thinking. While I can commend Yahoo's privacy policy, and their willingness to stick by it in even the most extreme circumstances, I still think they should give the family access to their dead son's e-mail account before it gets deleted after not being used for 30 days. While this is being resolved, I hope Yahoo have at least made a backup of the e-mails because it would be terrible for it to be deleted before they resolve the situaion.
Having had experience of losing a family member, I can understand fully how being denied access to your loved one's final thoughts would be really upsetting.
I'm even upset after having read that article! I think the family should have access to their sons final words without question. The defense against allowing them to read his emails from that woman who's child commited suicide is entirely a separate matter! In this case, it is obvious that their son wanted his words to be available to the public even - his father even said his intent had been to make sure that there was a voice of someone who had been over in Iraq for future generations. I think Yahoo! is way out of line refusing to give them access to their son's emails.
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