PayPal threatens to sue a cancer victim for dying, a "breach" of its rules

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@Boundegar

One thing to consider is, at least under US law, your debts go with you to the grave… unless your relatives “affirm” the debt, which keeps it alive for the next person. For a mortgage or an auto loan, it might make sense for the grieving spouse to keep the mortgage going, rather than face foreclosure.

On the contrary, the debt does not just “vanish” because you are dead, unless your debts exceed your assets. Paying off creditors from the assets is a normal and well established part of handling the estate of the deceased. The fact that Paypal forgave the debt rather than trying to get it from the estate is part of what convinces me that this was a mistake rather than an on purpose. There’s simply too much money involved for forgiveness to be the SOP.