One of those things you need to think about, even if you don’t want to, is all the little and big things that someone is going to have to deal with when you die. That sort of thing has been on my mind, now that I have a house, and few investments, and various and sundry personal items that I would want taken good care of. And there are other things — what do I want my last messages to be, to people like Jodie, or my parents, or my best friends?
Here’s a road map: ‘Read this if I am dead’ helps living – The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
"Just in the past few weeks: My wife, Georgina, and I made new investments with the money from maturing certificates of deposit. Our local telephone bill started coming from AT&T, the new name for BellSouth. The customer service number for our long-distance carrier changed. We switched Internet service providers and have a new account number.
All these changes have been duly recorded in the regularly updated and arguably most important document I keep: a lengthy file (at last count, 6,382 words) titled "Read this if I am dead."
