Jory Des Jardins, a founder of BlogHer, wrote a terrific post about her personal experiences with planning her affairs.
Here are a few excerpts:
- “I wish I had put at least an ounce of forethought into what we were actually doing when we’d called an estate attorney and set up an appointment to create a will and trust.”
- “…this decision is not all about you. You must consider the beliefs and comfort of the person to whom you grant power of attorney.”
- “I recalled the struggle of my family five years earlier to determine my father’s wishes for his remains three weeks before he died of cancer. There was no will to reference, just a somewhat recalcitrant one-worded response when I hesitatingly asked what he wanted to have done with his remains, not like he was going to die or anything … His ashes remain in an urn in his former office, awaiting a family decision on how to disperse them.
- “I resented that he hadn’t specified exactly what he wanted. In essence he put it in our hands, wondering if we’d done right by him.”
- “Even if he didn’t know how he wanted his remains to be handled, having something in writing would put the agonized living at ease.“
Read the entire blog post here http://www.blogher.com/urn-casket-or-cryonics-joys-estate-planning on the BlogHer.com website
