After reading this post on canonical address books by @annahavron, it occurred to me that something like a physical record of important information that could be referenced by someone upon our deaths would be a great idea. I mentioned this to my wife Rachel and she said she saw something like that at our local bookstore and - after some searching - we found I’m Dead. Now What?, an organizer built for this very thing. We’ve ordered one for ourselves and one for our in-laws. I feel like Caitlin Doughty would be proud.
@annahavron I just ordered a cooy of this for myself. And I suggested to my sister, who did a TED talk on A Good End of Life, that she should create a workbook like this.
ah, this is good! I have a document that I update with financial and account information. I print a couple times a year as well. I imagine that isn’t as complete as something like this book, though. I suppose I could always add my preferred funeral music to the document, though!
Thank you so much for the mention, and I'm looking forward to checking out the book you all found!
@jean I will have to check out your sister's TED talk... thanks for the link!
@bjhess @jean Putting in funeral preferences is very helpful. You all inspired me to write this post, because this is a topic I engage with regularly in my job Hey, Let's Talk About Death
@annahavron, thanks for the post. Clit is undoubtedly a topic I should look into as well. And I'm happy I could read it without my mind shutting down. Progress :-)
@annahavron Very nice. Thanks for sharing all of that great information!
@annahavron Have you seen this article about a Torah training software program that is slowly disappearing because it seems the source code has been lost with the developer's death? Very sad. h/t @jsonbecker
@annahavron That was an excellent, helpful post that I'll be bookmarking. Thank you for putting the time into it!
@jean No! That's a shame.... but not uncommon with software designed for religious communities though. You get people with high passion for the topic, who put a ton of work into their projects, and eager users who are nevertheless under non-profit budget constraints... I can name two more wonderful scholarly projects like that which I depended on, that are just gone now.
@V_ My hope was to make a difficult topic more approachable; thanks so much for letting me know. Progress, indeed!
@annahavron Thank you for your blog post and the resources, this will help a lot!
@jean I’ve finally gotten back around to watching your sister’s TED talk. It was so good!