Leave behind clarity instead of chaos.
Hello, World!
Organize the information, wishes, accounts, documents, and instructions your family will need—before they’re forced to reconstruct your life under pressure.
Free review edition of The Death Happens Guide. This plain-language guide helps you understand the decisions, documents, and conversations that can spare the people you love from unnecessary confusion later.
• Understand legal authority, healthcare wishes, accounts, property, digital legacy, funeral planning, and survivor responsibilities.
• Know which documents matter, where they should be kept, and who needs access.
• Work through difficult choices with practical explanations instead of legal or medical jargon.
• Use checklists and a clear sequence so you can start without trying to solve everything at once.
• Pair it with the Workbook to turn what you learn into a usable plan.
Available at no charge during the review period while reader and professional feedback helps shape the final edition.
Free review edition of the 180-page fillable and printable Death Happens Workbook. It gives you one practical place to record the information, wishes, locations, and instructions someone else may actually need.
• Record key people, professional contacts, legal authority, and who should be notified.
• Organize the locations of legal, financial, medical, insurance, property, and business records.
• Capture healthcare values, end-of-life wishes, funeral preferences, obituary details, and digital-legacy instructions.
• Track accounts, debts, recurring bills, devices, online services, and other practical responsibilities.
• Prepare survivor steps, annual reviews, personal messages, and the stories worth keeping.
• Complete it on a computer or print it and write by hand.
Keep passwords, PINs, recovery codes, private keys, full Social Security numbers, and safe combinations somewhere more secure; use the Workbook to record where the access instructions are stored. Available at no charge during the review period while reader and professional feedback helps shape the final edition.
WHY THIS MATTERS
Grief is hard enough. The scavenger hunt is optional.
Families should not have to guess who has authority, where original documents live, what bills keep running, how to access digital accounts lawfully, what care or funeral wishes were—or who must be called first.
ONE SYSTEM. THREE STEPS.
LEARN
The Guide explains the choices, tradeoffs, and planning concepts in plain language.
RECORD
The 180-page fillable Workbook captures names, locations, roles, decisions, and action lists.
SHARE
Tell the right people where the plan lives and how to use it.
WHAT THE SYSTEM HELPS ORGANIZE
• People, legal authority, and document locations
• Money, accounts, debts, insurance, property, and business interests
• Healthcare values, advance-care information, and end-of-life wishes
• Password systems, devices, online accounts, and digital legacy
• Funeral, body, memorial, and obituary preferences
• Survivor steps, annual review, personal messages, and the stories worth keeping
FREE REVIEW EDITIONS
The Guide and Workbook are available at no charge during the review period. Feedback from friends, readers, and professionals will help shape the final published editions.
WHO IT IS FOR
Adults planning ahead, adult children helping parents, caregivers, executors and trustees, property or business owners—and anyone who may someday die.
KEEP THE MAP HERE. KEEP THE KEYS SOMEWHERE SAFER.
Never put passwords, PINs, recovery codes, seed phrases, private keys, full Social Security numbers, or safe combinations in the Workbook. Record where secure access instructions are stored instead.
Why this matters
Grief is hard enough. The scavenger hunt is optional.
Families should not have to guess who has authority, where original documents live, what bills keep running, or who must be called first.
A clear plan turns hundreds of stressful questions into one usable map.
One system. Three steps.
Make the plan useful.
Planning works when people understand it, can find it, and know what to do next.
Learn
Understand the choices, tradeoffs, and planning concepts in plain language.
Record
Capture the names, locations, roles, decisions, and instructions that matter.
Share
Tell the right people where the plan lives and how they should use it.
Guide + Workbook
One explains.
One records.
Use them together as a practical planning system. Both are free while the review editions are being improved.
Understand what matters.
Plain-language help for legal, financial, medical, digital, property, funeral, and legacy planning.
Explore the Guide →Put your answers in one place.
A 180-page fillable and printable organizer for the facts, wishes, contacts, locations, and next steps your people may need.
Explore the Workbook →Free planning forms
Start with one useful document.
You do not have to finish everything at once. Choose the form that would reduce the most uncertainty today.
DNR / DNI planning packet
Conversation prompts and practical planning support.
View form →Financial power of attorney
Organize authority for financial decisions.
View form →Simple last will
A starting point for recording final wishes.
View form →Medical power of attorney
Name who can speak when you cannot.
View form →Living will / directive
Record values and care preferences clearly.
View form →All planning tools
Browse the full free resource collection.
Browse tools →From the articles
Clear answers to difficult questions.
Short, practical reading for the decisions people tend to postpone.
The documents to organize before you die
A focused list that helps your family find what matters.
Leave passwords without creating a security disaster
Make access possible without putting secrets in the wrong place.
What belongs in a fireproof safe?
Protect originals without making them impossible to retrieve.
Free review editions
Make one hard day a little easier.
Download the Guide and Workbook at no charge while friends, readers, and professionals help shape the final editions.
Get both freeShare feedback