Dying Kindness

Dying Kindness

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Dying Kindness episodes

  • 4: The Value of Physical Stuff

    When we die, we'll leave behind a lot of physical stuff. How should we think about the value of that stuff? And how can we make it easier for our loved ones to distribute it after we're gone?

    16 min
  • 3: After the First Days - The Will

    What can a Will convey - and when is it not enough?

    Discussed in this episode:

    • Wills
  • Estate Planning with a lawyer
  • Time and costs of Probate Court
  • Thresholds for automatic Probate
  • Beneficiary Designations
  • Interview w/ Miguel Torres, MilesTorresLaw.com

    Poem: New Orleans Limbo by Andrei Codrescu

    from Death Poems, ed. Russ Kick

     

     

    15 min
  • 1: Urgent Needs in the First Hours

    If you were to get into an accident, what would your loved ones need to know right away?

    This episode introduces Dying Kindness, and walks through some practical notes on what you should have prepared for the first few hours of your possible incapacity or death.  

    In this episode:

    • Emergency contact
  • Need-to-know list
  • Health Care Directive
  • Dependents
  • Organ donation
  • Death Certificate
  • Where to take your body
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    15 min

About Dying Kindness

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We are all going to die. And someone will have to handle what we leave behind. Odds are good that person will be someone who loved us, someone who will be grieving. Let’s not make it harder for them…

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