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> An appointed successor can manage your public repositories after presenting a death certificate then waiting for 7 days or presenting an obituary

Looks clear enough

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> to manage your user owned repositories if you cannot

At first I was thinking this was more general, like say you got trapped in Afghanistan with no internet and nothing but a phone line, you could direct your successor to take over your project. But then the process clearly states you have to submit a death certificate.

I agree with gp: why the obscure language. Why not just "in the unfortunate event of your death blah blah blah"?

Actually the trapped without internet thing makes me think. Why not do some sort of dead-man-switch? I.e. when you haven't committed (or been online) in X months the project is transferred to your successor.

In this situation, would you want to do complete transfer of repository? If you expect to come back, you want to give them just commit rights.

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