Plan While You Still Can: 16 End-of-Life Checklists You Need Now

Plan While You Still Can: 16 End-of-Life Checklists You Need Now by Donald M. Burrows. perfect edition. ISBN: 9781890427900.

Many people claim they have their end-of-life planning under control because they have their wills, trusts and other legal and financial plans in place. However, because wealth management is only one component of end-of-life planning, they are not yet finished. Think of end-of-life planning as both a left-brain and a right-brain process. The financial and legal preparations are left-brain activities. Right-brain activities are emotional and include removing hassle from a loved one s life, doing what is necessary to keep the family together by avoiding sibling divorceTM while creating eldercare plans, making the difficult personal decisions about where to live and how best to resolve the matter of the family home, talking with a loved one about their legacy, celebrating their life and making burial plans, spending time together and finally, saying good-bye. MY QUESTION TO YOU IS THIS: If you are only focusing on left-brain activities, to the exclusion of right-brain activities, are you doing end-of-life planning with only half a brain? Plan While You Still Can is an intensely pragmatic and personal series of 16 hands-on checklists, each supplemented with personal stories and lessons learned. It was developed as a result of helping individuals and their family members deal calmly and rationally with their unique situations when each person learned that they had a terminal condition. End-of-life planning is both emotionally draining, and universally needed. Yet people often prefer not to face it until it is in-their-face. But unfortunately, it is a fact that many people are only one diagnosis away from financial disaster, and by then, it is often too late. The good news is that, using the tools in Plan While You Still Can, the reader can calmly and rationally gain peace-of-mind while creating the framework of an effective end-of-life plan.