A Beginner’s Guide to the End

1. Don’t Leave a Mess

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Though the process of sorting through your belongings after you go will never be easy for the people you leave behind, you can make it a lot easier. That’s why cleaning up is one of the best gifts you can give loved ones. It will save them time, money and no small amount of heartache.

Introduction: This Is Not Life Interrupted. This Is Life.

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Only a small proportion of us, 10 to 20 per cent, will die without warning.

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We urged his wife, Beth, to request hospice care. But to her that meant giving up, and in her desperation for more time, she told the doctors that my father wanted to extend his life at all costs; he’d jotted it down on a napkin somewhere.