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Daydream: Sign up for $Service using the name of a near-death relative. When you want to cancel, "$Subscriber is deceased" is a pretty heavy trump card.


"We're going to need 3 certified copies of the death certificate in order to close the account. These must be original copies and will not be returned."


"Okay. That I know, the $Jurisdiction Probate Court closed out her estate a while back now. Feel free to petition that Court to re-open the estate. I was neither her attorney, nor did I handle her will, so I have no legal standing in the matter regardless. But I could tell you which cemetery to send the the bill collectors to."


"Once you send us the death certificate, we will transfer it to their youngest heir."




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