FOREWORD

This guide was compiled with two purposes in mind:

1. To help you organize information so your survivors can better carry out your wishes with complete and accurate information.
   
2. To assist your family members or other survivors in arranging for your burial or cremation and handling the legal and financial matters connected with death.

At the time of death, survivors often experience great emotional stress which is heightened by the need to find information and make decisions. This guide provides a place to record your personal information, what action you would like taken, and where you keep important papers that are needed at time of death.

Although death is never easy to discuss, completing this guide may make it easier to discuss with the family member or members most likely to make arrangements following your death. This will also provide them an opportunity to ask questions.

You are welcome to make copies of this guide for other family members or friends to assist them in making their own plans.

Completing this guide in pencil will make it easy to record changes as they occur.

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