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In case you get hit by a bus : how to organize your life now for when you're not around later

2020

Format:	Book
Author:	Schneiderman, Abby, author.
Title:	In case you get hit by a bus : how to organize your life now for when you're not around later / Abby Schneiderman and Adam Seifer, with Gene Newman.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Workman Publishing, [2020]
Description:	xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary:	"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)"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Death -- Planning. Estate planning. Preparedness. Personal belongings.
Other Author:	Seifer, Adam, author.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN:	2020046565
ISBN:	9781523510474 * 9781523510474 9781523510474 1523510471
Other Number:	1204265448
System Availability:	2
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Call Number:	306.9 Schneide In case
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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)

Table of Contents

	Introduction: Planning Is Important	p. vii
Level 1	Start With Your Stuff	p. 1
	Passwords, People, Money, and Your Abode
	Access Granted: Passwords & Codes	p. 2
	Sharing your phone password	p. 3
	Side Mission: Can we see some ID?	p. 5
	Passwords: The next level	p. 6
	Password storage methods	p. 8
	Keys to the kingdom: Your most important passwords	p. 10
	Off-line time	p. 12
	Plan of Attack: Passwords & codes	p. 13
	All Your Money: Everywhere It Lives	p. 14
	Your financial blueprint	p. 16
	Questions for each financial account	p. 17
	When the proof is in the paper	p. 18
	List your assets	p. 18
	Side Mission: Making sure the kids are alright	p. 19
	Life with benefits	p. 23
	Why you (really) need joint accounts	p. 27
	Plan of Attack: Money you have	p. 28
	"Safe" deposit boxes	p. 28
	Your Pad: An Operating System	p. 30
	Pool your knowledge	p. 31
	Your home matrix	p. 32
	Basement	p. 35
	Main floor	p. 36
	Upstairs	p. 38
	Side Mission: Animal instincts	p. 39
	The great outdoors	p. 42
	Just put it in storage	p. 44
	Plan of Attack: Home Operating System	p. 45
	Hitting the road	p. 46
	Making First Contact	p. 47
	Your top five contacts	p. 48
	What's up, Doc?	p. 51
	Money folks	p. 52
	Law abiding	p. 52
	An unbroken home	p. 53
	Side Mission: Parental guidance	p. 55
	Hitting the road (or water)	p. 59
	Your personal VIPs	p. 59
	Plan of Attack: Organizing contacts	p. 60
	Show them the way	p. 61
	What about family?	p. 61
	Break Time: Life's Milestones and Pit Stops	p. 62
	Level 2: Assemble The Pieces	p. 65
	Trusts, Wills, Health Care, and Your Digital Matrix
	Wills, Trusts, And Powers Of Attorney	p. 66
	When you're alive: POA	p. 66
	When you're dead: Will	p. 70
	Side Mission: Taking care of an actual business	p. 74
	Plan of Attack: Your legal docs: POA and Will	p. 82
	When you're alive or dead: Trusts	p. 86
	Plan of Attack: Creating a Trust	p. 92
	Letter of Last Instructions	p. 93
	Plan of Attack: Letter of Last Instructions	p. 94
	Money You Owe: Debt, Credit & Insurance	p. 96
	Credit for organizing	p. 97
	Bills: The expected	p. 100
	Bills: The unexpected	p. 104
	Plan of Attack: Money you owe	p. 106
	So. Much. Insurance.	p. 107
	Yet. More. Insurance.	p. 111
	Plan of Attack: Insurance	p. 115
	Your Medical Checkup	p. 116
	Your Personal Medical Journal	p. 116
	Plan of Attack: Construct your Personal Medical Journal	p. 119
	Advance Health Care Directives	p. 120
	Living Wills	p. 122
	Life support	p. 124
	Second life: Donating your organs	p. 127
	Side Mission: When life gets golden	p. 128
	Plan of Attack: Create your Advance Directive	p. 130
	Let's Get Digital	p. 131
	Why you need a Digital Estate Plan	p. 131
	Your digital account matrix	p. 136
	Plan of Attack: Make a Digital Estate Plan	p. 143
	The big close-out	p. 144
	Plan of Attack: Name a Digital Executor	p. 152
	Break Time	p. 153
	Talk the Talk	p. 153
	Stealth Talk: How to Gather Info from Loved Ones	p. 156
	Level 3: The Finishing Touches	p. 163
	Memorabilia, Letters, Funeral Planning, and Obituaries
	Memories: The Kind You See, Taste, and Hold	p. 165
	Photo finish	p. 165
	Plan of Attack: Physical memories	p. 171
	Delicious history	p. 172
	Plan of Attack: Recipes	p. 176
	Personal antiquing	p. 177
	Plan of Attack: Heirlooms	p. 178
	Telling The Story Of Your Life	p. 179
	Round 1: Your personal history	p. 179
	Round 2: Your favorite things	p. 180
	Round 3: Your experiences	p. 181
	Plan of Attack: Family tree	p. 183
	Round 4: Your academic & professional life	p. 184
	Round 5: Your religious & political beliefs and your charities & causes	p. 184
	Final round: Your hopes for the future	p. 186
	Plan of Attack: Ethical Will	p. 186
	It's In The Mail: Legacy Letters	p. 187
	Blurbs to friends, acquaintances & associates	p. 187
	Letters to the important people in your life	p. 189
	Side Mission: End-of-life medical directives	p. 192
	Plan of Attack: Writing blurbs & letters	p. 195
	Ready for your close-up: Videos for loved ones	p. 196
	It's (Really) Your Funeral	p. 198
	The most important funeral decision you'll make	p. 198
	Five steps to planning a traditional funeral and burial	p. 199
	A fiery exit	p. 203
	Paying it forward; Funeral finances	p. 204
	Plan of Attack: Plan your funeral	p. 208
	Last words ... in print	p. 211
	Plan of Attack: Write your own obituary	p. 213
	Tiers of memorialization	p. 218
	Side Mission: Remove skeletons from your closet	p. 221
	Final Break Time	p. 230
	What Happens If ... You Don't Plan Ahead?
	Afterword	p. 234
	Plan of Attack Checklist	p. 234
	Acknowledgments	p. 236
	Resources	p. 238
	Index	p. 240

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