
Family Preparedness7 min read
Information Your Family Should Know Before a Death
A family does not need every private detail. It needs to know who can act, whom to call, and where the right records are kept.
Checklists and questions for getting a household's information, plans and conversations in order.
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A family does not need every private detail. It needs to know who can act, whom to call, and where the right records are kept.

A single page listing what exists and where it is kept does more for a family than a filing cabinet nobody knows how to open.

Most emergency planning fails on the small things: nobody knows the passwords, nobody knows who to call, and nobody has had the conversation. This checklist covers those.

Reviewing what your household depends on is mostly a matter of asking better questions. These are the ones that tend to surface the things people have not thought about.