Questions to kickstart end-of-life planning conversations.

It is essential to talk with your family about end-of-life wishes. Here are a few questions that can help stir that conversation.

1)Do you have a will in place?
2)If something happened to you, what would be our (your) wish for the kids?
3)I was thinking about what happened to___________, and it made me realize …
4)It is essential that people who matter to me know what is important to me about my health care if something should happen.
5)I want to make sure you understand and could honour my wishes.
6)What makes your life meaningful?
7)Where do you store your life planning documents? (will, life insurance, names of people to contact)
8)Right now I am living with illness, I expect _. Is this what you understand too?
9)Do you want to be cremation or buried
10)Do you want your organs donated?
11)What kind of funeral do you want?
12)Who needs to be part of funeral or end-of-life planning for us?
13)What kind of financial legacy do we want to leave our kids, grandkids?

Here are some resources

https://www.makingmywishesknown.ca/   or https://www.advancecareplanning.ca/

What have you found helpful?

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