The scenario is: landlord or lady intends to ask the tenant about the rent (because money from their account is not there to be withdrawn from) only finding the tenant’s corpse, meaning they are not alive. Whether there is foul play involved or it’s self inflicted (suicide): does that circumstance alone just “erase” the tenant’s due rent?
It may be shifted onto the roommates (if he has one, but in this case there’re none) and even they had company: it’s not their problem as the landlord or lady only speaks to the tenant who signed the lease but that’s not possible since the tenant passed. Would the landlord or lady just ask for the tenant’s last will & testament instead?
This actually happened with my father. Not only was the missing rent due, but they also had a lawyer argue that by dieing, my father had broken the lease, so we had to pay the fee for that too. The judge reduced the fee a bit, but we still ended up having to pay thousands out of his estate to that shitty apartment complex’s parent company.
So yes, at least in the state this happened, the missing rent was required to be paid out of the estate. Not sure what your role is in this scenario, but if someone died, consider kindness rather than trying to secure every last dollar possible.