[Red Badger]

I have only one child, an adult. I know she is not perfect, and neither are we, her parents. if this case applied to us, instead of this poor family I would be screaming at every yahoo executive I could find until they relented. Privacy? what about plain old decency to help a bereaved family. That PRIVACY issue is a red herring and a liberal tool used for decades to accumulate more power for themselves at the expense of the people.......

[Neets]

what about plain old decency to help a bereaved family

Help them what?, exactly. What more can they find out by reading his private Yahoo email, than what they can find out from his fellow soldiers?

I'm not understanding the reason behind wanting to get into his email.

[wallcrawlr]

shes an adult? doesnt she get to do anything without you trying to "snoop".
To me this is where its difficult for the emotions of a family member wanting to grab a hold of anything from a deceased son/daughter balanced against the wishes and honor of the deceased to have some things die with them.

[newzjunkey]

I can't agree. They know what they know of their child, have years and years full of memories and should not be milling around looking for ghosts.

Yahoo doesn't own them a damned thing. And, while you don't want to admit it, "decency" may well come in protecting this child's reputation with his family. You were a Marine according to your profile, I'm sure there are plenty of things at his age you did or said that you'd be embarrassed to have had your parent's reading in your death. As their last impressions of you.