100 Things For The Survivor

 

Many of these details can be planned ahead of time.  By making these important decisions now, you can minimize the emotional strain that will be placed on your survivors.

Don’t leave your loved ones guessing…guide them now.    Secure Vital Statistics (required for burial permit)

1. Name, address and phone number
2. How long in state
3. Name of business, address and phone
4. Occupation and title
5. Social Security number
6. War Veterans Serial Number
7. Date of birth
8. Place of birth
9. US Citizen
10. Father’s name
11. Father’s birthplace
12. Mother’s maiden name
13. Mother’s birthplace
14. Religions name (if any)

Pay some or all of the following:

1. Family burial estate
2. Memorials
3. Funeral director
4. Interment Service
5. Clergy
6. Florist
7. Clothing
8. Transportation
9. Telephone and telegraph
10. Food
11. Doctors
12. Nurses
13. Hospitals and ambulance
14. Medicine and drugs
15. Other current and urgent bills (mortgage or rent, taxes, installment payments)

Collect Documents (required to establish rights for insurance, pensions, social security, ownership, relationship, etc.)

1. Will
2. Legal proof of age or birth certificate
3. Social Security card or number
4. Marriage license
5. Citizenship papers
6. Insurance policies (life, health and accident, property)
7. Bank books and credit cards
8. Deeds to property
9. Bill of sale for automobiles

1. Name of charitable organization to which donations are suggested in memory of deceased
2. Providing information for eulogy
3. Select names for pallbearers
4. Music
5. Clothing for you and children
6. Preparation at home, including food for family and guests
7. Extra chairs
8. Transportation for family and guests, including planning funeral car list
9. Checking and signing necessary papers for burial permit
10. Providing vital statistics about deceased to newspapers.
11. Providing addresses and telephone numbers for all interested people
12. Answering innumerable sympathetic phone calls, messages, wires and letters
13. Meeting and talking with funeral director, cemetery representative clergy, about all details.
14. Greeting all friends and relatives who call
15. Arranging for meeting relatives who call
16. Arranging for meeting relatives who arrive from out of state at airport or railroad/bus station
17. Providing lodging for out-of-town relatives
18. Arranging for special religious services
19. Check the Will regarding special wishes
20. Order death certificate (multiple copies)
21. Look after minor children

Notify as soon as possible

1. The doctor or doctors
2. The funeral director
3. The memorial park
4. All relatives
5. All friends (email?)
6. Employer of deceased
7. Employers of relatives not going to work
8. Pall bearers
9. Insurance agents (life, health and accident)
10. Religious, fraternal, civic, veterans organizations, unions
11. Newspapers regarding notices
12. Attorney, accountant, or executor of estate

Additional Advice

1. Business online – user names, passwords
2. Banking online – user names, passwords
3. Friends online – email, passwords
4. Distribution of personal property
5. Advise who they can trust to advise in their absence
6. Tell about loans receivable/bartering
7. Know where stock certificates are located
8. Locate “free” insurance policies from banks, credit cards, AAA
9. Complete an Advance Directive, Do Not Resuscitate
10. Who has access to Safe Deposit?  Where are keys?
11. PINs for bank and other accounts
12. Record information in something portable
13. Discuss directions with your family
14. Review it regularly.