Ahead Of Your Time: A Complete Guide For End-of-Life Planning

Ahead of Your Time: A Complete Guide for End-of-Life Planning

About the AuthorDick Coffin and Sue Coffin are the owners of Rogan's Memorials, a monument shop. They live in Bangor, Maine.Combining practical guidelines with a thorough overview of posthumous activities, this handbook provides indispensable advice for preplanning every aspect of the procedures following death. Each step of the funereal process is systematically explored-beginning with financial and legal concerns and ending with funeral, cemetery, and monument matters-and supplemented with real-life stories and simple explanations. When completed, the more than a dozen included forms create a clear set of instructions for bereaved family and friends. Equally useful for those whose loved ones did not log their postmortem wishes, this invaluable manual offers solutions to delicate topics surrounding death, such as the notification of appropriate people, organ donation, and casket and grave-marker budgets.ReviewAhead of Your Time-A Complete Guide for End-of-Life Planning is a must have for anyone who wishes to set things in order for themselves and their loved ones. A tender strategy for you and your loved ones to bring your final wishes to reality, simply and generously taking away the stress of double guessing your desires. Not only do people avoid this topic, they don't know where to begin in this crucial task that we must all face. Dick and Sue Coffin give compassionate, critical and expert advice which will take you through the pre-planning process step-by-step. The authors recognize the gift of pre-planning not only reduces stress for your loved ones at such a difficult juncture; pre-planning often settles any arguments or disputes which sadly arise during this emotionally charged grieving time. What a wonderful book! The authors include nearly twenty forms to fill out including everything from hospice care and living wills to floral arrangements and lists of people to notify, just to name a few. They include things I could never have thought of even with my best attempt.I very highly recommend this book. Ahead of Your Time is a great way to put all your little ducks in a row. --R.J.K. Kendle (Ca.)My retirement planning site at federaljobs.net/retire deals with most pre and post retirement issues with one exception, the ultimate end-of-life planning. That is the one hole left uncovered so to speak. This is where Dick & Sue Coffin come in, yes their real name. Their new book, Ahead of Your Time; A Complete Guide for End-of-Life Planning provides the information you need to effectively plan for the inevitable. If you have a small estate, this one book alone, with a simple will and the use of In-Trust-For or Pay-on-Death (POD) account designations to avoid probate, is all that you need to set up a basic estate plan. This easy to read 101 page book covers everything from preplanning your final arrangements, writing the obituary, keeping records, arranging services, legal aspects, to financial matters and commemorating the loss. All this in one compact easy to read reference guide plus 30 pages of helpful data collection forms for all aspects of your plan. Yes, it takes a commitment on you and your loved ones part to sit down and talk about this sensitive issue. However, you and your loved ones will be far better off taking care of business before its too late. Dick & Sue explain the process and thus reduce the fear. They spent 28 years in the monument business and have seen too many families torn apart by difficult decisions that must be made at the hardest of times. They've seen too many people spend lots of money trying to do the for a loved one, who might have opted for simplicity. Don't leave your loved ones in a lurch. This excellent book will help to ease the pain at an unbearable time and insure that your loved ones wishes are honored. I added this book to my reference shelf and will mention it on my retirement planning site. --Dennis V Damp (Robinson Township, PAEnd of life issues and