New Death Planning App Will Give People More Control

For many people planning for death can be an unpleasant topic to discuss. Thankfully there is a new App called Cake that will assist people with estate planning. “Cake will quiz users on questions from the practical to the emotional (“Is there someone you need to forgive?”) and then is intended you figure out how you’d like to be remembered after you’re gone.” This App was created in partnership with Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is the “brainchild of former health consultant Suelin Chen and palliative care specialist Mark Zang.” This new mobile-friendly web app will let users figure out what their end-of-life preferences are so that they can store and share them online. Even with this new app it is still important for people to speak with an experienced estate planner to assist with many of the complex estate planning issues that they might not know about.

See Peter Rugg, Death Planning App Cake Will Let You Swipe Right on Funeral Decisions, Inverse, December 3, 2015.