Important Public Service Announcement

[rmd]

Do you have various paperwork in place for things like health care proxy and a will and stuff like that? If not, you might want to do something about all that. Like, you really should.

PARTICULARLY if you would rather than decisions be made by your friends and/or family of choice rather than the folks who are listed as family in government records. (I was going to say 'birth family' but I'm not sure what a good term is that would include adopted and blended families.)

I know there are free/cheap resources out there for doing this stuff for folks with fairly uncomplicated situations, but I haven't used any of them so I have no specific recommendations.

Comments

[totient]

I like "family of origin" as a reasonably inclusive term for this.

[rmd]

THANK YOU. I knew there was a term I'd used before but my brain absolutely wouldn't produce it on demand. Thanks!

[candle_light]

It's a good reminder and something we've been working on. One of the reasons I got married was I didn't want my family of origin making those kind of decisions for me.

(I'm guessing something awful precipitated your post, along with someone else vaguebooking. Any chance you could let me know who died offline?)