The most natural solution for most people is to give shards of your key to various friends/family that you trust not to collude and reconstitute your key (or be socially engineered -- make them talk with you on video chat or something). Require 5 out of the 9 shards to reconstitute it.
Obviously you can scale up your security according to the value of your account and your threat model.
That's a great method for preventing loss as opposed to allowing recovery.
We need to keep the conversation in recovery because eventually it'll happen. Your 5/9 people could have n+1 unwilling parties where n is the losable amount.
It is unrealistic to say it will _never_ happen.
When my identity is lost... is it lost for good? how do i recover?
If it's lost for good, and i make a new 'identity' then what is my 'identity'... is it just... my reddit username?
Obviously you can scale up your security according to the value of your account and your threat model.