I think this was more to inspire a rough contents and format, rather than actually proposing GitHub is a good place to store this stuff - print it out and stick it in a safe.
The important thing is that it be easily accessible...printed for example. No, you don't want all your passwords on a piece of paper. But pointers to where the passwords are, how someone can get emergency access to them, as well as locations of other accounts, documents, etc. is what's important.