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 On numerous occasions, I have written on the importance of making preneed decisions and purchases that reflect your values and your desires both before and after death.
Recording your last wishes is your last opportunity to influence what occurs after your death. Certainly, you can give oral instructions, but those are not binding. Your will is usually binding, unless a judicial officer decides that what you wanted was either illegal, or not what you really meant.
You will want to create a list of persons who should be contacted upon your death, providing their names, relationships, addresses, phone, fax, email and the like.
Likewise, your clergy, lawyer, employer, immediate family, and funeral director should all be made known before death and in writing. I’m sure that you will not want your family scurrying around asking every attorney in town, “Did you write a will for my father?”
The following form i was found online, and I have modified it significantly. I think it is a good starting point for recording your last wishes. It is a form which, when completed, can supply the family and others with information needed after an individual's death. We recommend you print it out and complete it.
ArticleRecordingYourLastWishes.doc
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