A Guided Journal
to help your loved ones after your death

I came up with the idea for Notes for a Neat & Tidy Death over ten years ago.

 

Working as a Marketing Manager for a local hospice, I began the tough task of speaking to patients about their impending death and end-of-life plans. Difficult at any point in life, these patients were all young adults, many of whom had naturally assumed that they had decades of life ahead of them.

 

Although they could acknowledge that they were approaching the end of their lives, the number one concern for all of them was how their families and loved ones would cope after their death. Who would know where the paperwork was kept, how to access insurances, bank accounts, social media etc? How would they know what this person's wishes were with regards to their end of life care, funeral or wake?

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It turned out that nobody wanted to raise these issues and risk distressing their loved ones further so this stress and worry just built up.

 

Death is something that - no matter how imminent or inevitable - we simply avoid talking about in our society. It makes us uncomfortable. This is why the concept of ensuring that your wishes are written down, your arrangements made and your last words conveyed (without necessarily having to sit down and have THAT conversation) appeal to so many people.

 

Notes for a Neat & Tidy Death is designed to be the opening salvo in a conversation about your life, your wishes and your death. You can choose to continue the conversation or you can leave it there. Either way, your loved ones are taken care of and your voice is heard.