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28 reviews for:
In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: A Plan to Organize Your Life Now for When You're Not Around Later
Adam Seifer, Abby Schneiderman
3.9 AVERAGE
28 reviews for:
In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: A Plan to Organize Your Life Now for When You're Not Around Later
Adam Seifer, Abby Schneiderman
3.9 AVERAGE
Thank you NetGalley, for this ARC in exchange for review.
When I requested this book to preview, I had no idea a friend of ours would die soon after. We are heartbroken for his family, but his wife told me he was very organized and she knew exactly where to find everything she needed. My husband and I got to thinking...that is not us.
In Case You Get Hit By a Bus is timely for many reasons. All of us think we have all the time in the world to get to the end of life planning. If there is anything we've learned in 2020, the end of life came for over 300,000 Americans because of an uncontrolled virus (so far/December). We ALL have to be cautious of what we are leaving behind. Gone are the days of putting everything in one folder. Our digital footprint is everywhere - that needs monitoring after we are gone.
The best part about this book isn't even the guidance, its the humor. If I can laugh out loud at a book about my own demise, the authors are onto something. Written by the founders of Everplans, this may read as a commercial for their website. But who cares? I need the info and I need someone to explain it to me. This fit the bill.
Recommended for those 18 and up...anyone who needs someone to look after things when they are gone.
When I requested this book to preview, I had no idea a friend of ours would die soon after. We are heartbroken for his family, but his wife told me he was very organized and she knew exactly where to find everything she needed. My husband and I got to thinking...that is not us.
In Case You Get Hit By a Bus is timely for many reasons. All of us think we have all the time in the world to get to the end of life planning. If there is anything we've learned in 2020, the end of life came for over 300,000 Americans because of an uncontrolled virus (so far/December). We ALL have to be cautious of what we are leaving behind. Gone are the days of putting everything in one folder. Our digital footprint is everywhere - that needs monitoring after we are gone.
The best part about this book isn't even the guidance, its the humor. If I can laugh out loud at a book about my own demise, the authors are onto something. Written by the founders of Everplans, this may read as a commercial for their website. But who cares? I need the info and I need someone to explain it to me. This fit the bill.
Recommended for those 18 and up...anyone who needs someone to look after things when they are gone.
The level of detail they want you to record is ridiculous, and completely unnecessary. After I pass, no-one needs to know who I used to do handyman jobs around the house or what my schedule was for replacing batteries in my TV remote or whatever. The way I did things just doesn't matter at that point, and surely we can assume that someone minimally competent at adulting will be able to take care of tiny details.
Books like In Case You Get Hit by a Bus can spur us to tackle sensitive, unfamiliar, daunting end-of-life planning tasks. This book is up to date, including to-do lists to organize your online accounts. The book's brevity and clarity enable you to quickly read, plan, and then get the work done.
will read again later when i'm more able to actually do the stuff in the book
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Thank you to the authors, Workman Publishing and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
This book is a comprehensive and clearly structured guide for working through all the questions most of us are eager to put off for "someday". However, it goes far beyond the usual advice on wills, trusts, living wills etc. It includes extremely useful information and tips on managing your digital presence, tips for reducing your material possessions to lighten the load on your heirs, guidance for leaving effective departing words and planning your funeral (should you be so inclined), and ways to and encourage and support your loved ones in their planning.
Two things I had issues with: the formatting - why o why the difficult to read two-column style? - and the fact that the checklists would be better placed at the front of the book. In addition, I found it very USA-centric , albeit still very helpful for those of us in other countries.
This book is a comprehensive and clearly structured guide for working through all the questions most of us are eager to put off for "someday". However, it goes far beyond the usual advice on wills, trusts, living wills etc. It includes extremely useful information and tips on managing your digital presence, tips for reducing your material possessions to lighten the load on your heirs, guidance for leaving effective departing words and planning your funeral (should you be so inclined), and ways to and encourage and support your loved ones in their planning.
Two things I had issues with: the formatting - why o why the difficult to read two-column style? - and the fact that the checklists would be better placed at the front of the book. In addition, I found it very USA-centric , albeit still very helpful for those of us in other countries.