Final Planning

Have your estate planning all done?  All your documents signed and in a safe place? What about your final plans—for your funeral, invitations for that event, putting your documents in a place where they can be located?  Want to use a website for storage of all this important info?

Tara Siegel Bernard writes about this in her March 28, 2014 NY Times article, Navigating the Logistics of Death Ahead of Time.  She notes the growth of businesses that helps clients make their “end-of-life plans”, covering what estate planning and end of life documents people need, storage for the important papers, and info about the funeral.  Several of these websites deal with all aspects of planning, including storing all those passwords we create for our digital selves.  Others only cover a discrete topic.  The article also discusses the security of these websites and offers a brief overview of several of the sites.

As well, Ms. Bernard mentions the “old-school” method of planning: putting everything in a folder.  She references the “What if…” workbook while she wrote about last year, which allows one to write everything down in one book.