Life and Death Planning for Retirement Benefits
Author: Natalie B. Choate
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13:
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End of Life Notebook
Author: Love by Heart
Publisher:
Published: 2019-06-24
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781075954412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe End of Life Planning Notebook Some people believe they don't need an end-of-life plan because they don't have much in the way of personal or financial assets. However, money and possessions are not the only reason to create a plan your family can follow in the event of your passing. If you or a loved one own a home, have a family, care for a child with special needs, or are simply concerned about dementia or the inability to communicate with family at an old age - these are all good reasons to create and maintain an end-of-life plan. End of life planning is a task people often put off. However, those who die without their affairs in order risk leaving their loved ones with significant problems, including funeral expenses, medical debts, legal expenses, tax obligations, and severe strain and family disputes. While 70% of men and women agree that everyone should have an end-of-life plan before the age of 60, only 43% actually do. Start planning today! My Life & Wishes is an online service that allows you to create a secure end-of-life plan and digital record to share everything your family needs to know. * Personal Burial Plan: Disposition of Remains, Funeral Plans, Obituary Information. * Immediate Tasks and Persons to Contact. * Document Locator. * Personal Information: Marital Information, Family Records, Adoption Agreements, Child Care Arrangements, Pet Care, Military Service, Education, Organizations, Current and Previous Employment. * Medical Information: Medical and Dental Insurance, Health Care Providers, Medical History, Medications, Summary of Family Medical History. * Financial Information: Financial Statement, Current Income Sources, Bank Accounts, Stocks and Bonds, Real Estate, Safe Deposit Box/Safe, Notes Receivable, Liabilities, Business Information. * Insurance Information: Life Insurance, Disability Insurance, Long Term Care Insurance, Home owner's/Renter's Insurance, Auto Insurance, Umbrella Liability Insurance, Other Insurance Policies. * Legal Information: Professional Advisors, Will, Powers of Attorney, Living Will, Organ Donor Information, Trust Document Information. * Retirement Information: Pension Plans, Profit-Sharing Plans, IRAs, Stock Options, Annuities. * Personal Assets: Household Inventory, Personal Property Inventory, Appraisals, Memorandum of the Distribution of Personal Property, Location of Other Important Papers, List of Service Providers. * Lined spaces to write in. * 72 Pages, Perfect size at 8.5 x 11 in / 21.59 x 27.94 cm. * Soft Glossy Cover with white pages. Get start This End of Life Planning Notebook today!
Planning for Death
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9004365702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume Planning for Death: Wills and Death-Related Property Arrangements in Europe, 1200-1600 analyses death-related property transfers in several European regions (England, Poland, Italy, South Tirol, and Sweden). Laws and customary practice provided a legal framework for all post-mortem property devolution. However, personal preference and varied succession strategies meant that individuals could plan for death by various legal means. These individual legal acts could include matrimonial property arrangements (marriage contracts, morning gifts) and legal means of altering heirship by subtracting or adding heirs. Wills and testamentary practice are given special attention, while the volume also discusses the timing of the legal acts, suggesting that while some people made careful and timely arrangements, others only reacted to sudden events. Contributors are Christian Hagen, R.H. Helmholz, Mia Korpiola, Anu Lahtinen, Marko Lamberg, Margareth Lanzinger, Janine Maegraith, Federica Masè, Anthony Musson, Tuula Rantala, Elsa Trolle Önnerfors, and Jakub Wysmułek.
Let's Talk about Death (over Dinner)
Author: Michael Hebb
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
Published: 2018-10-02
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 0738235318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor readers of Being Mortal and When Breath Becomes Air, the acclaimed founder of Death over Dinner offers a practical, inspiring guide to life's most difficult yet important conversation. Of the many critical conversations we will all have throughout our lifetime, few are as important as the ones discussing death—and not just the practical considerations, such as DNRs and wills, but what we fear, what we hope, and how we want to be remembered. Yet few of these conversations are actually happening. Inspired by his experience with his own father and countless stories from others who regret not having these conversations, Michael Hebb cofounded Death Over Dinner—an organization that encourages people to pull up a chair, break bread, and really talk about the one thing we all have in common. Death Over Dinner has been one of the most effective end-of-life awareness campaigns to date; in just three years, it has provided the framework and inspiration for more than a hundred thousand dinners focused on having these end-of-life conversations. As Arianna Huffington said, "We are such a fast-food culture, I love the idea of making the dinner last for hours. These are the conversations that will help us to evolve." Let's Talk About Death (over Dinner) offers keen practical advice on how to have these same conversations—not just at the dinner table, but anywhere. There's no one right way to talk about death, but Hebb shares time—and dinner—tested prompts to use as conversation starters, ranging from the spiritual to the practical, from analytical to downright funny and surprising. By transforming the most difficult conversations into an opportunity, they become celebratory and meaningful—ways that not only can change the way we die, but the way we live.
The Bottom Drawer Book
Author: Lisa Herbert
Publisher:
Published: 2023-08-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780645176728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Bottom Drawer Book is your after death action plan. Your ideas, plans, and your life's reflections will sit quietly in its pages until they're needed. Then, when you go, there'll be no family squabbling over how much to spend on your casket, who'll tell stories at your funeral, and which songs to play. The notes you make in The Bottom Drawer Book will give your loved ones the opportunity to grieve and celebrate the real you and your honest story.
Confessions of a Funeral Director
Author: Caleb Wilde
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 0062465260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed: The family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial The act of embalming a little girl that offered a gift back to her grieving family The nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away The funeral that united a conflicted community Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde offers an intimate look into the business and a new perspective on living and dying
Reimagining Death
Author: Lucinda Herring
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: 2019-01-08
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1623172934
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHonor your loved ones and the earth by choosing practical, spiritual, and eco-friendly after-death care Natural, legal, and innovative after-death care options are transforming the paradigm of the existing funeral industry, helping families and communities recover their instinctive capacity to care for a loved one after death and do so in creative and healing ways. Reimagining Death offers stories and guidance for home funeral vigils, advance after-death care directives, green burials, and conscious dying. When we bring art and beauty, meaningful ritual, and joy to ease our loss and sorrow, we are greening the gateway of death and returning home to ourselves, to the wisdom of our bodies, and to the earth.
Death Is No Excuse
Author: David Baker
Publisher: Bookbaby
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9781098392741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeath Is No Excuse is an insightful roadmap through the legal potholes of unplanned death and disability, offered by a veteran attorney who's handled the worst of these cases for over forty years. It's a plain-spoken, surprisingly entertaining guide to everything you need to know about planning for death or disability, as well as other calamities that can occur along the way, be they divorce, avoidable tax burdens or getting ripped off as you toddle into old age.
Dying in America
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2015-03-19
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 0309303133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent transitions among care settings, and enormous care responsibilities for families. According to this report, the current health care system of rendering more intensive services than are necessary and desired by patients, and the lack of coordination among programs increases risks to patients and creates avoidable burdens on them and their families. Dying in America is a study of the current state of health care for persons of all ages who are nearing the end of life. Death is not a strictly medical event. Ideally, health care for those nearing the end of life harmonizes with social, psychological, and spiritual support. All people with advanced illnesses who may be approaching the end of life are entitled to access to high-quality, compassionate, evidence-based care, consistent with their wishes. Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life.
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning
Author: Margareta Magnusson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-01-02
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1501173251
DOWNLOAD EBOOK*The basis for the wonderfully funny and moving TV series developed by Amy Poehler and Scout Productions* A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life. In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called döstädning, dö meaning “death” and städning meaning “cleaning.” This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming. Margareta suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you’d ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children’s art projects). Digging into her late husband’s tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element of fun to a potentially daunting task. Along the way readers get a glimpse into her life in Sweden, and also become more comfortable with the idea of letting go.
