Originally Posted by
emoney1978
Every program I know of lets people "gift" awards to other people, and none of them know that a member has died unless a survivor chooses to notify them. So in the event that you pass away, your wife can simply log into your account and redeem awards that way.
Good advice. She could do that with my accounts for AA and DL. I don't believe Hilton lets you book an award online in someone else's name, so she'd have to have our son or brother-in-law call it in; I think Starwood's the same. God only knows about TripRewards (which I have ~200K in from crews working out of town).
I would rather have her to transfer the AA miles to her account, simply because it would her get closer to, if not over, the threshold for lifetime gold.