The funniest part when you die is: all you coins are gone! Because nobody of your family is a computer geek. So nobody can rescue the bitcoins. They would just throw your computer and stuff away.
Doesnt everyone keep a paper bitcoin wallet with their last will and testament in their lawyers safe
I don't have a fucking lawyer.
Thinking of some m of n crypto-scheme.
In spirit of Mike Hearns ideas of including publicly pollable info into scripts, maybe we could make a public service with an api that allows checking wether someone is alive or dead (0/1), so one could put the coins into an address that allows themselves to spend the coins at any time and the loved one's key to spend the coins only if
http://is.alive.com/?ssn=123456789 == 0.