DeathWise® Blog

In addition to planning for the distribution of your financial assets, consider making a list of your personal belongings and think about your preferences for distribution.

It had been a little over three years since I had spent any meaningful time with Peter. We left message snippets for one another on Facebook, exchanged occasional e-mails and had short telephone conversations in which we agreed to reconnect as soon as we found the time, which we never did.

Why do people who have faced a life-threatening disease or accident claim that it changed their life? They’ll even say, “It was the best thing that ever happened to me.” Well, I’ve been through both experiences, and for me it boils down to one word: Perspective.

I just read a very insightful OP-ED piece written by Susan Silk and Barry Goldman and published in the Los Angeles Times. It was titled: “How not to say the wrong thing.”