Your Health and Wealth
A Guide to Financial and Personal Information: What You Need to Do and Know Before Your Spouse/Partner Dies
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Your Health and Wealth: A Guide to Financial and Personal Information: What You Need to Do and Know Before Your Spouse/Partner Dies is the greatest gift you can give yourself and the people you love BEFORE you die. This book is: • An instruction manual for people you love after you’re gone. All your important information and wishes are stored in one place. • A personal information organizer where you can store personal and financial information or instructions on how to find them. • A conversation starter for you and your spouse or family to find out key information about each other while you’re still alive. • A guide to navigating the grieving process after the death of a spouse or partner. “Everybody want to go to heaven but nobody want to go now.” – Kenny Chesney Nobody wants to think about their own death, so we end up putting off crucial planning and conversations until it’s too late. Then the people we care about most are not only grieving, but left guessing and worrying about what to do next and how best to honor our wishes. If something happened to you tomorrow, would your loved ones know where to find: • Your computer passwords • The title to your car • The contact information of people you’d like notified if something happens to you • Your funeral wishes For your loved ones, this book will: • Help them instantly access all the key information/documents they need. • Share your wishes so they don’t have to guess and make difficult decisions. • Provide guidance about grief and the emotional process the survivor goes through after losing a spouse or partner. Lee Buchanan shares her own journey of her husband’s death and the lessons she learned. For you and your partner/spouse, this book will: • Help you organize key information. • Think about your wishes and what future you want for your loved ones. • Have crucial conversations with your spouse or partner about what matters most to you, now and after you’re gone. • Provide compassionate wisdom from author and Grief Recovery Specialist Lee Buchanan on how to deal with the grieving process when you’ve lost someone close to you. When the time comes that you or your spouse or partner need this book, and it will come, this book will and be an invaluable instruction manual for that person when they need it most. Note from the Author: A FUNNY thing happened to me on the way to writing a book about the amazing journey of recovering from grief after the death of my husband. I wrote this little book first. My beloved husband passed away on July 13, 2005. There are so many things I wish we had talked about more before his death. You have the opportunity to ask questions and find out these things now. Everyone has a story about what happened, or what didn’t happen, because their loved one who died had done no planning or made no provision other than perhaps a will. NOW is the time to get started documenting the information that you or others will need to know when that time comes. Communication, of course, is the most important part of planning for any event. This is something you and your spouse/partner/significant other should do together. Sit down together at a time that is comfortable and meaningful to both of you and begin to go through this book and start a dialogue on what arrangements feel right for your particular situation. Congratulations to you, reader, for taking time NOW to address some of the practical matters and the emotions/experiences that are part and parcel of spending and ending your life together. Lee Buchanan Sag Harbor, NY July 29, 2013
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About the Book
Your Health and Wealth addresses important end-of-life topics that many of us prefer to avoid: death, money, and grief. Yet it is healthy for mind and spirit to identify and record important personal and business information while you and your spouse or loved one are still living.
Do you know key aspects about your loved one? For example:
• car title location
• Internet password
• funeral wishes
• business succession plan
Lee Buchanan has gathered into one place the information you need to fill out. She also shares warm, personal wisdom about emotions and experiences that arise when a loved one passes. Whether you are an organizational wizard or someone who hasn’t written a check or balanced a checkbook, Lee’s presentation is a resource to appreciate now and in years to come.
READERS PRAISE YOUR HEALTH AND WEALTH
“A MUST read for anyone who wants to achieve inner peace in a dynamic and often chaotic world …”
—international best-selling author Tim Connor
“This little book is big on practicals—finding out and recording important personal and business information in one place...while you and your spouse or loved one are still living.”
—Lizzie Magnusson
“If we had had all the necessary information available, it would have saved a lot of grief.”
—Nelleke and Tim Oei
“Lee's book is truly a gift of love. It will help all who have suffered the loss of a loved one.”
—Andrew Fuller, OSB
About the Author
Lee Buchanan is currently a Grief Recovery Specialist trained at the Grief Recovery Institute in California. She was a professional woman in the Travel Industry, one of the first stewardesses (now flight attendants) to take to the skies in the new jet age, when she met and married her husband and became mother of twins.
In the 70’s she became co-owner of The Travel Store travel agency. Lee had been married almost 44 years at the time of her husband’s passing.
Contact Lee at cronesnest@hotmail.com.