Answer: they don't, if they didn't set something up. That's the whole point.
They don't.
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Bitcoin's death problem: how billions of pounds worth of crypto assets are being lost when people die
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If users die or lose their encryption keys for accessing their Bitcoin, how do they prevent the digital assets from being lost forever?