PlanYourLegacy.com

Here is some information about a new website, PlanYourLegacy.com, taken from an e-mail I received from the company and its website.

In the days and weeks surrounding your death, your survivors will face funeral and burial arrangements, a mountain of paperwork and intense grief.

Plan Your Legacy helps you organize your affairs, express your final wishes, and ease the burden on your loved ones, while giving them room to grieve, heal, and celebrate your life.

Unlike other websites that only address issues of grieving, legal matters or financial planning, this site offers a comprehensive set of integrated tools that guides families through the practical and personal concerns that together make up the growing field of end-of-life planning.

Some of the tools that can be found on the www.PlanYourLegacy.com site include:

• Legacy Journal—A simple fill-in-the-blank format that systematically guides you through the process for documenting, storing and ensuring delivery of important information about your preferences for funeral and burial arrangements, organ donation, pet care, etc. It prompts you for the names of important advisors, as well as the location of key documents and much more.
• Memorable Messages— One of the most difficult aspects of grieving is that unresolved longing for one last conversation with a loved one. This site offers you the opportunity to create personal messages to your loved ones, and to create one last conversation, which will be sent out shortly after your death to ease the burden of grief. 
• Online Memorial—Hearing stories about a loved one deepens our understanding and appreciation of their life. This section allows members and their survivors to easily create a unique memorial page by adding a biography, pictures, video clips and audio files.
• Support for Survivors—Survivors have access to critical information that will guide them through the financial, legal and administrative aftermath of your death, helping them successfully navigate common pitfalls like loss of benefits, identity theft and get-rich-quick investment schemes. Based upon Colgan’s best-selling The Survivor Assistance Handbook, this section also provides checklists and worksheets to educate survivors about managing day-to-day finances.