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Michael Hebb is a partner at RoundGlass and the founder of Death Over Dinner and EOL.community-a single source end-of-life planning website. Michael's writings have appeared in USA Today, GQ, and Food and Wine. He lives in Seattle.
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Hebb goes around hosting dinner parties where death is the subject. He uses such prompts as “What would you want people to say about you at your funeral?”, “What do you want your legacy to be?” and “Do you have a will and advance directive in place?”
If you don’t think about these things, and deal with them while you are well, you may very well lose control over them. Do you want to be kept alive at all costs, even if it means being hooked up to machines, unable to communicate or move? How do you want your assets to be divided? If you don’t deal with that, the courts will.
This book will help guide you through talking about these things. You will have to really think about how you think about death, and what you want. I am a hospice volunteer, and I highly recommend it.… (more)