For your family · making your own plan
You know where everything is.
They don’t.
The accounts, the policies, where the will is kept, which bills matter. You carry it without thinking about it. Kin is how you set it down , so the people you love never have to reconstruct your life from a filing cabinet and guesswork.
If you were unreachable for a month, what would your family need to know by Friday?
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What your family will never have to guess.
And the searching happens during the worst weeks of their lives, which is exactly when nobody can think straight.
- Which accounts exist, and at which institutions
- Where the will is kept, and who drafted it
- Which bills must keep getting paid, and from where
- Who speaks for you if you can’t
- What you’d want, in your own words
- Who to call first, and in what order
On your terms, always.
You start alone, and nobody else sees anything until you invite them. When you do, you choose what each person can see: money, health, documents. Section by section, and you can change it whenever you like. Some people share everything. Some share only the “when the time comes” packet. Some just leave the printed copy in a drawer and tell one person where it is. All three are fine.
And “family” means whoever you say it does. The people who’d step in aren’t always relatives, and every role here can go to anyone you trust.
The kindest sentence you can leave them is “it’s all written down.”
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