I know the name of the site is Prepared to Survive and not Prepared to Die.
When I ask this question I am not trying for drama.

We can't know when we will go.
It might be when we are old and decrepit, or it might be when we are still young.
We can't know how we will go.
It might be from natural causes or by accident.
It might be after a long illness, or it might be suddenly.

All any of us can really know is that eventually we will die, in spite of everything we can do to prevent it.

It is our wives and our kids who will have to deal with the aftermath when we are no longer living. I think most of us want it to be easier for them.

So, I ask those who have thought about it or had to deal with the aftermath of the death of somebody close:

What should you do to prepare your family for you eventual death?

A will?
Tell everybody how much they mean to you every day?
Make sure there will be financial records available to whomever inherits?
Funeral preparations (like type of service or type of burial)?

What Else?
What kind of things do you think should be done or discussed to prepare people in case you die?


I repeat, I am not trying for melodrama here.