Dying With a Will Could be the Least of Your Problems

Dying With a Will Could be the Least of Your Problems

Advanced estate planning can’t include every “what-if” scenario. In my wife’s family things didn’t exactly play out like they’d planned. Her parents each wrote their own obituary years before their deaths…or so we thought. It turns out that Anne’s mother authored both obituaries. Her mother’s read that her husband “preceded her in death” and his…

Required Reading for Nearly Anyone: “Being Mortal” by Dr. Atul Gawande
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Required Reading for Nearly Anyone: “Being Mortal” by Dr. Atul Gawande

Not Your Typical Summer Beach Read I bought Being Mortal a few years ago on a date night with my wife. We grabbed dinner and stopped through Scuppernong Books to judge books by their covers. We each bought a book and laughed that my choice was a surgeon’s thoughts on “medicine and what matters most…