Estate Planning

[Great-Kazoo]

If you or family members don't have a will, what you'd like loved ones do with you after you pass. I suggest you get to it.

Many a year ago while dealing with my aunts rapid fading from reality, where she wasn't too far gone for my mom to take charge, but not coherent enough to manage her estate. I was informed our parents not only had no Will, they hadn't bothered to make plans for them being gone. Fortunately with much pushing by us kids they took care of it.

Fast forward to last week when i received the call our dad was gone, 5 years after mom. My sister being the executor started putting money towards his funeral and other related items after mom passed. Had she not handled this we would have been hit with a bill that would have cost us a lot of time & money. Something one really isn't focused on at the time, with everything else going on.

I posted this because when our aunt passed a month ago, they had nothing planned. Nothing, will, funeral arraignments, etc. The lack of any planning is still being dealt with today. Not sure what cost are here. On the east coast, those funeral business have some game.

The TL/DR version

Get your estate in order sooner, than later.