In the event death or incapacity

[cthawley]

There are some existing feature requests that may be of interest:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/add-option-freeze-account/17427
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/deceased-observers-and-a-deceased-symbol-on-their-icon/642

Also, an existing staff response that is relevant:

@tiwane

Alright, after some discussions with our legal counsel, we’ve decided that it’s too difficult for us to verify that a deceased person is actually the owner of a specific account (in our records, we don’t have much more to go on than an email address and username), and thus we won’t be supporting a public-facing way to denote that a user has specifically passed away.

Rather than deceased, we will look into implementing a way to indicate that a user has not been active on iNat in a long time, or to easily see when they were last active, a request being discussed here: https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/make-it-more-visible-throughout-the-site-when-a-user-is-active-within-last-week/142/8

Based on this, it seems like it would be necessary for each user to set up something of their own to address how they wish their account to be handled. It might be useful to have a specific help page set up with some of the very helpful guidelines @carrieseltzer set out above to give users an idea of how they could approach this and what some considerations are.