I hope it’s a fun funeral that celebrates my life more than my death. They’ll play music to a playlist (that I still need to give my wife) that will include music by Pulp, Astrud Gilberto, Skunk Anansie and Spitz. While I still need to get that playlist to my wife, all of the very serious medical decisions have already been decided.
While I would love to say that I started that conversation, it was my wife who started that chat with me shortly before the birth of Toddler Mojo. We sorted out all of the details and properly filed them so that any and all medical situations would be covered in the event of her or my death. In the unlikely event of both of our deaths a close relative will receive Toddler Mojo, More Mojo, the two cats and the two dogs. I can assure that said close relative wants us to live a very, very long time.
I joke. Life is a fabulous gift that you need to take full advantage of by exercising often and eating a healthy diet. However, to quote Iron Maiden, “from the moment you’re born you’re dying”, so we all need to plan accordingly, don’t we?
Have you planned your end of life decisions yet?
My Directives has a great series of questions that allows the conversation to start. It’s thorough and will help you and your loved ones figure out what is best if something tragic and unexpected should happen. My Directives also has a free place to store all of your medical information that is available to your doctors 24/7.
Do you want to be cremated or buried? What should happen if you’re in a coma? To DNR or not to DNR? Organ donor? Who should make the medical decision on your behalf if you can’t respond?
Yeah, these aren’t fun questions, but they need to be asked, especially if you think DNR is a GNR tribute band.
It’s better to know the answer to difficult questions than to guess at what a loved one would have wanted. Have the conversation now and you will be thankful later.
True story: My father sent me an email last summer entitled “Jack RIP”. I found the title so disturbing that I didn’t even open it….until just now. He let us know where all of the stock and financial documents were located. My sister gets to keep all the jewelry and I get all the tools in the garage (drill press!). My father has a will, so I don’t know why he sent this to us. I guess he was feeling vulnerable and mortal, but I still don’t know what he would like done with his advanced medical decisions. I’ll have a chat with him, send him to My Directives and see how he’d like to handle things.
This was a promotional sponsored post as part of my work with Mom Spark Media. Thoughts are my own and my death funeral playlist hopefully won’t be heard for many, many years.
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So important that once we’re parents we TCB – take care of business, especially the plans, will, Trust, and whatever else should be done, “Just in case.” We read about those “cases” all the time. It’s hard enough on your family if you die suddenly; don’t aggravate such a horrible situation by not TCB! Thx for the reminder Trey. I’m in the process of re-tooling my Trust/Will prior to my forthcoming Heli-Skiing trip, “Just in case!”
Yikes, heli-skiing. Yes, I need to remind my pop to shape his up as well. TCB dude.
Why you want to scare me like this? Actually, this stuff is smart, I reckon.
True story: before I deployed to Iraq, I redacted all my old emails to my best friend (that he printed and bound each semester for me) from college, in case I died, since I didn’t want my parents reading them. Emails to that dude were my blog in the mid-’90s before there were blogs.
I keep a journal also. It’s the hand written version of a blog. Although the journal gets less entries than this. Have fun this week in Austin!