The LRDP Model

Four components

                    LRDP
                     │
       ┌─────────────┼─────────────┐
       │             │             │
   GOVERNANCE      RECOVERY     DESTRUCTION
       │             │             │
 Executor         Threshold      Threshold
 Attorney          Secret         Secret
 Trigger          Recovery      Destruction
 event             Package       Package
       │             │             │
       └─────────────┼─────────────┘
                     │
                 CUSTODIANS
               A      B      C

• Governance: who can declare the triggering event, who holds legal authority, and how the system itself can be changed.
• Recovery: what your family needs to access: accounts, assets, documents, messages.
• Destruction: what should be removed, and what legally cannot be removed regardless of your wishes.
• Custodians: independent people, each holding one share of each secret. They don't need to know each other, and don't need to know what their share unlocks.

Different thresholds for different stakes

Recovery failing is inconvenient. Destruction happening by mistake is permanent. The template treats them differently on purpose:

Function	Threshold	Why
Family asset recovery	2 of 3	Tolerates one custodian being unavailable, incapacitated, or gone
Sensitive information recovery	2 of 3	Same reasoning, recovery should be resilient
Destruction authorization	3 of 3	Irreversible, so require unanimous participation
Changing the system itself	3 of 3 + executor/attorney	Prevents one compromised custodian from quietly editing the plan

The sequence matters

Destruction should never be able to fire before recovery is confirmed complete, and it should never be the first thing that happens after a triggering event.

TRIGGERING EVENT VERIFIED
      │
      ▼
CUSTODIANS ASSEMBLE
      │
      ▼
RECONSTRUCT RECOVERY SECRET  (2 of 3)
      │
      ▼
OPEN FAMILY RECOVERY PACKAGE
      │
      ▼
EXECUTOR / FAMILY RECOVERS ASSETS
      │
      ▼
CONFIRM RECOVERY COMPLETE
      │
      ▼
RECONSTRUCT DESTRUCTION SECRET  (3 of 3)
      │
      ▼
REVIEW DESTRUCTION LIST
      │
      ▼
LEGAL HOLD / RETENTION CHECK
      │
      ▼
EXECUTE DESTRUCTION
      │
      ▼
FINAL CONFIRMATION

Physical and digital layout

Nothing about this requires exotic infrastructure. A simple version:

Location 1: Estate attorney / secure vault
    System instructions
    Custodian A / B / C instructions

Location 2: Custodian A          holds Share A (recovery) + Share A (destruction)
Location 3: Custodian B          holds Share B (recovery) + Share B (destruction)
Location 4: Custodian C          holds Share C (recovery) + Share C (destruction)

Encrypted digital vault
    RECOVERY/      (accounts, assets, crypto, documents, family message)
    DESTRUCTION/   (personal material, digital data, superseded secrets)
    INSTRUCTIONS/  (master instructions, recovery procedure, destruction procedure)

The encrypted vault itself doesn't need to be accessible by any single custodian. It only opens once a threshold has reconstructed the relevant secret.

Next, see how the recovery and destruction packages break down in detail: Family Recovery Package and Destruction Package.