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Where should you put your funeral wishes?
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Write them in your health care directive and name a person to be in charge of your funeral arrangements. That box is easy to skip, but it creates a direct line from your wishes to the person carrying them out. Talk with that person too, and consider planning ahead with a funeral home.
Key points
- Use the funeral wishes section of your health care directive.
- Name someone to handle arrangements.
- Share your wishes in person, not only on paper.
Angela Woosley, M.A.Mortician and end-of-life doula, Inspired Journeys · Guest presenter
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And the better it is if you are communicating, not just in writing, but also in person with them. But I really advise people to describe that in their healthcare directive, and if need be, assign a person in the healthcare directive to be in charge of their funeral plans or arrangements at the time of death. I think that’s a really powerful box that’s easy to skip in a healthcare directive, and it makes it much simpler. It’s like a direct line from your pen to the person you’d like to fulfill those arrangements at the time of death.
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