Ensuring Access to Family or Professional data in the Event of your Death

Is your family prepared to access and or recover data, personal or professional, in the event of your death?

As I age (40-something) I begin to consider the difficulties my own family would have in the even of my death. Ours is a typical household in that all Mumma and the kids want to do is happily compute and not bother with the details. Sure, it kills me a little but I accept it and we're all better for it ;) However, In our case we have maybe 15 years of data stored and sometimes it's encrypted. At the very least some data is archived and password protected, even on the cds I burned it to. Speaking of cds, would your family know that the expected life of a cdrom is ~ 10 years? Would your wife, husband, or child simply toss a cdrom into the trash that appeared to be non-working instead of knowing which utility to try to recover data or even that mounting a cdrom can be trivially simple even if your fancy GNU/Linux system doesn't do it automagically?

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