Corel Medical Series: Cancer/Corel Medical Series: Cancer.iso/mac/Program/p32.dxr/00038_Field_SRC.p32.A.6.txt

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• It covers the details on how you wish to be cared for if you become very seriously ill, including a Living Will and Durable Powers of Attorney.
• It gives advice and a place to fill out your instructions about your choice of a cemetery or other resting place,
  mortuary and funeral arrangements, memorial or other types of services, newspaper information and advice on
  death benefits that are available in the United States.
• It provides survivors with a list of immediate after-death contacts and phone numbers in order of importance.
  This is convenient at a most awkward time. In their grief, people often don't think clearly and may make errors
  such as being sold costly funeral services that might directly contradict your wishes, which should be honored.
• It also lists the proper contacts to be made within the first 10 days—such as instructions for the post office or
  motor vehicles departments—and what contacts should be made within the first month— telephone, gas and
  electric, water companies, waste disposal, newspapers, credit cards, clubs and organizations, cable TV and
  other organizations that deserve to be listed.
• It provides guidance and planning space to be filled out on financial plans, any investments you've made,
  property and casualty insurance, as well as information about home and personal property insurance. It is
  amazing how ill informed many people are about life insurance policies, social security benefits, medical
  insurance, pensions, profit-sharing plans, IRAs and Keogh provisions that have often been made years before.
  Working through this section may give you a few surprises.
• It lets you catalog vital information on banks, savings accounts, loans, safety deposit boxes and so on so that
  this information is available when it should be.