Create Your Own Personal Journal of Last Wishes
If you want an organized way to keep all your last wishes, personal information, final instructions, and favorite photos in one place, look no further than Grant Me My Final Wish: A Personal Journal to Simplify Life's Inevitable Journey. This journal is unique because it provides a place to put essential information about your living will and advance directives, funeral instructions, organ donation preferences, and important people to notify after your passing, while also allowing you to be creative and personalize your last wishes planner. It provides a place for you to list your favorite poems, special wishes for your pets, and best memories of family and friends.
While several last wishes planners have been written, Grant Me My Final Wish: A Personal Journal to Simplify Life's Inevitable Journey has received five-star reviews. It is unique because of the amount of information it allows you to compile in one place and how you can personalize it. If you want to spare your survivors the burden of making difficult decisions about your funeral and other final arrangements, using this journal will allow you to address the essential decisions while also adding your own personal style.
Grant Me My Final Wish: A Personal Journal to Simplify Life's Inevitable Journey is very well designed and makes a beautiful gift. Many couples enjoy completing their journals together. Completing this journal has also provided some comfort to individuals suffering a terminal illness. It is available from Amazon.com.
An All in One Planner for Your Last Wishes and Estate Plan
If you want a more comprehensive planner that will allow you to record your last wishes but also organize the legal documents in your estate plan, such as your will, living trust, advance directives, power of attorney, and organ donation preferences, Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To is one of the best planners available. With over 400 pages, plus a CD-Rom loaded with forms, this planner is a great value.
Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To provides information on planning for the care of your minor children and pets, estate planning for a small business, life insurance, debts, financial accounts, retirement plan accounts, social security, safe deposit boxes, and estate and inheritance taxes. It helps you record your memorial preferences for your funeral, cremation, and burial. Get It Together allows you to record your biographical data and information you want included in your obituary. It also shows you how to write a letter to your loved ones that will be kept with your planner. It literally has everything you need to get your affairs in order and make your last wishes known.
If you need motivation to complete your estate plan, Get It Together is a great place to start. You can work through the steps at your own pace and tackle the parts you feel most comfortable with first. In addition, your loved ones won’t have to search through mounds of paperwork to find your last wishes if you use this planner. All your documents can be neatly kept in one binder so your instructions will be followed, which is especially important if you have minor children or pets. Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To is also available at Amazon.com
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Grant Me My Final Wish, a journal for recording your last wishes and memorial preferences.
Get It Together: Organize Your Records So Your Family Won't Have To. This is one of the most comprehensive last wishes planners available. In addition to recording your memorial preferences and instructions for final arrangements, it allows you to organize estate planning documents, such as your will, living trust, living will, and financial information.