The 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!

“Wise, vulnerable, and surprisingly relatable . . . funny in all the right places and enormously helpful throughout. It will change how you think about death.” —Rachel Held Evans, New York Times–bestselling author of Searching for Sunday 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 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’s candid memoir offers an intimate look into the business of death and a new perspective on living and dying. “Open[s] up conversations about life’s ultimate concerns.” —The Washington Post “As a look behind the closed doors of the death industry, as well as a candid exploration of Wilde’s own faith journey, this book is fascinating and compelling.” —National Catholic Reporter “[A] stunner of a debut.” —Rachel Held Evans, author of Inspired

The 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.

This “comforting…thoughtful” (The Washington Post) guide to maintaining a high quality of life—from resilient old age to the first inklings of a serious illness to the final breath—by the New York Times bestselling author of Knocking on Heaven’s Door is a “roadmap to the end that combines medical, practical, and spiritual guidance” (The Boston Globe). “A common sense path to define what a ‘good’ death looks like” (USA TODAY), The Art of Dying Well is about living as well as possible for as long as possible and adapting successfully to change. Packed with extraordinarily helpful insights and inspiring true stories, award-winning journalist Katy Butler shows how to thrive in later life (even when coping with a chronic medical condition), how to get the best from our health system, and how to make your own “good death” more likely. Butler explains how to successfully age in place, why to pick a younger doctor and how to have an honest conversation with them, when not to call 911, and how to make your death a sacred rite of passage rather than a medical event. This handbook of preparations—practical, communal, physical, and spiritual—will help you make the most of your remaining time, be it decades, years, or months. Based on Butler’s experience caring for aging parents, and hundreds of interviews with people who have successfully navigated our fragmented health system and helped their loved ones have good deaths, The Art of Dying Well also draws on the expertise of national leaders in family medicine, palliative care, geriatrics, oncology, and hospice. This “empowering guide clearly outlines the steps necessary to prepare for a beautiful death without fear” (Shelf Awareness).

For 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.