[billsimms]

There was a newspaper column a decade ago urging people to write a "Read This If I am Dead" document describing how to actually find and do all the large and small things that you want done when the contents of your brain are gone. Thinking carefully about that, writing, revising and simplifying it to the point that someone will be able to actually do that when I am gone is probably the best thing I ever did. Google used to be able to find the contents of that column, but it appears gone now. There is a book now "Read This When I am Dead" by Presley and Howard on likely the same subject.

[ahazred8ta]

Humberto Cruz, "A family records organizer", in the Boston Globe, 2007 ---- https://archive.is/SjTWI

"In essence, "Read This If I Am Dead" is a living, loving, and constantly evolving little book I write for my family. You can do the same..."