In case you get hit by a bus How to organize your life now for when you're not around later
Book - 2020
"A step-by-step program for getting your life in order, so you're prepared for the unexpected. The odds of getting hit by a bus are 495,000 to 1. But the odds that you're going to die some day? Exactly. Even the most disorganized among us can take control of our on- and off-line details so our loved ones won't have to scramble later. The experts at Everplans, a leading company in digital life planning, make it possible in this essential and easy-to-follow book. Breaking the task down into three levels, from the most urgent (like granting access to passwords), to the technical (creating a manual for the systems in your home), to the nostalgic (assembling a living memory), this clear, step-by-step program not only removes ...the anxiety and stress from getting your life in order, it's actually liberating. And deeply satisfying, knowing that you're leaving the best parting gift imaginable. When you finish this book, you will have: A system for managing all your passwords and secret codes Organized your money and assets, bills and debts A complete understanding of all the medical directives and legal documents you need--including Wills, Powers of Attorney, and Trusts A plan for meaningful photos, recipes, and family heirlooms Records of your personal history, interests, beliefs, and life lessons An instruction manual for your home and vehicles Your funeral planned and obituary written (if you're up for it)"--
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- Genres
- Handbooks and manuals
Instructional and educational works - Published
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New York, NY :
Workman Publishing
2020.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
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- Item Description
- Includes index.
- Physical Description
- xii, 244 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781523510474
- Introduction: Planning Is Important
- Level 1. Start With Your Stuff
- Passwords, People, Money, and Your Abode
- Access Granted: Passwords & Codes
- Sharing your phone password
- Side Mission: Can we see some ID?
- Passwords: The next level
- Password storage methods
- Keys to the kingdom: Your most important passwords
- Off-line time
- Plan of Attack: Passwords & codes
- All Your Money: Everywhere It Lives
- Your financial blueprint
- Questions for each financial account
- When the proof is in the paper
- List your assets
- Side Mission: Making sure the kids are alright
- Life with benefits
- Why you (really) need joint accounts
- Plan of Attack: Money you have
- "Safe" deposit boxes
- Your Pad: An Operating System
- Pool your knowledge
- Your home matrix
- Basement
- Main floor
- Upstairs
- Side Mission: Animal instincts
- The great outdoors
- Just put it in storage
- Plan of Attack: Home Operating System
- Hitting the road
- Making First Contact
- Your top five contacts
- What's up, Doc?
- Money folks
- Law abiding
- An unbroken home
- Side Mission: Parental guidance
- Hitting the road (or water)
- Your personal VIPs
- Plan of Attack: Organizing contacts
- Show them the way
- What about family?
- Break Time: Life's Milestones and Pit Stops
- Level 2: Assemble The Pieces
- Trusts, Wills, Health Care, and Your Digital Matrix
- Wills, Trusts, And Powers Of Attorney
- When you're alive: POA
- When you're dead: Will
- Side Mission: Taking care of an actual business
- Plan of Attack: Your legal docs: POA and Will
- When you're alive or dead: Trusts
- Plan of Attack: Creating a Trust
- Letter of Last Instructions
- Plan of Attack: Letter of Last Instructions
- Money You Owe: Debt, Credit & Insurance
- Credit for organizing
- Bills: The expected
- Bills: The unexpected
- Plan of Attack: Money you owe
- So. Much. Insurance.
- Yet. More. Insurance.
- Plan of Attack: Insurance
- Your Medical Checkup
- Your Personal Medical Journal
- Plan of Attack: Construct your Personal Medical Journal
- Advance Health Care Directives
- Living Wills
- Life support
- Second life: Donating your organs
- Side Mission: When life gets golden
- Plan of Attack: Create your Advance Directive
- Let's Get Digital
- Why you need a Digital Estate Plan
- Your digital account matrix
- Plan of Attack: Make a Digital Estate Plan
- The big close-out
- Plan of Attack: Name a Digital Executor
- Break Time
- Talk the Talk
- Stealth Talk: How to Gather Info from Loved Ones
- Level 3: The Finishing Touches
- Memorabilia, Letters, Funeral Planning, and Obituaries
- Memories: The Kind You See, Taste, and Hold
- Photo finish
- Plan of Attack: Physical memories
- Delicious history
- Plan of Attack: Recipes
- Personal antiquing
- Plan of Attack: Heirlooms
- Telling The Story Of Your Life
- Round 1: Your personal history
- Round 2: Your favorite things
- Round 3: Your experiences
- Plan of Attack: Family tree
- Round 4: Your academic & professional life
- Round 5: Your religious & political beliefs and your charities & causes
- Final round: Your hopes for the future
- Plan of Attack: Ethical Will
- It's In The Mail: Legacy Letters
- Blurbs to friends, acquaintances & associates
- Letters to the important people in your life
- Side Mission: End-of-life medical directives
- Plan of Attack: Writing blurbs & letters
- Ready for your close-up: Videos for loved ones
- It's (Really) Your Funeral
- The most important funeral decision you'll make
- Five steps to planning a traditional funeral and burial
- A fiery exit
- Paying it forward; Funeral finances
- Plan of Attack: Plan your funeral
- Last words ... in print
- Plan of Attack: Write your own obituary
- Tiers of memorialization
- Side Mission: Remove skeletons from your closet
- Final Break Time
- What Happens If ... You Don't Plan Ahead?
- Afterword
- Plan of Attack Checklist
- Acknowledgments
- Resources
- Index