[Sidney Lanier]

I suppose anything is possible, though this story seems a bit over the edge; I can't imagine credit card companies, especially one such as Citibank, not equipped to handle the deaths of their cardholders. I was a volunteer with Hospice for many years, and one of the stories I heard had to do with a man who was so overwhelmed with debt from multiple amputations, further surgical modifications of amputations, and prostheses that he just accepted every credit card offer made to him, ran each up to its limit, paid interest only (minimum payments) each month till he died, and apparently the credit card companies had no choice but to write off the debt. What a world!