No Loose Ends

Most estate planning advice stops at the will. The will is maybe a fifth of it.

No Loose Ends covers the rest: wills and trusts, yes, but also caregiving logistics, funeral and cremation decisions, digital assets, the accounts nobody knew existed, and the long administrative tail that arrives in the weeks you’re least able to deal with it.

I wrote it because I was an executor with a law degree and I still couldn’t find a single document that told me what actually had to happen. Funeral director Jess Wakefield provides professional commentary throughout, on the grounds that I have never embalmed anyone.