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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.

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Jean MacDonald

@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.

Barry Hess

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!

jabel

@jean Thanks for mentioning that talk. I’ll check it out.

jabel

@bjhess Yes. I plan to put funeral preferences in there also.

Anna Havron

Thank you so much for the mention, and I'm looking forward to checking out the book you all found!

Anna Havron

@jean I will have to check out your sister's TED talk... thanks for the link!

Anna Havron

@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

Chris Verbree

@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 :-)

Barry Hess

@annahavron Very nice. Thanks for sharing all of that great information!

Jean MacDonald

@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

jabel

@annahavron That was an excellent, helpful post that I'll be bookmarking. Thank you for putting the time into it!

Anna Havron

@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.

Anna Havron

glad you found it helpful!

Anna Havron

@bjhess thank you!

Anna Havron

@V_ My hope was to make a difficult topic more approachable; thanks so much for letting me know. Progress, indeed!

Odd-Egil “Oddzthrash” Auran

@annahavron Thank you for your blog post and the resources, this will help a lot!

Anna Havron

@odd glad to hear it!

jabel

@jean I’ve finally gotten back around to watching your sister’s TED talk. It was so good!

Jean MacDonald

Thanks! I’m passing that along to her. 😊