Mike Milligan explains how a few hours of end-of-life planning prevents a "double tragedy": losing someone and then drowning in their unfinished affairs. Hidden bank accounts, outdated beneficiary forms, and an ex-spouse still on your life insurance create chaos for the people left behind.
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Right. In the grand scheme of things, planning for the end of life just takes a few short minutes. Maybe it's a couple hours, couple, 3 hours. It just takes a little bit of mental energy and a little bit of planning to be able to prevent a double tragedy, your loss, but also the loss of time and energy and the mental anguish that goes with trying to organize something that could have been organized while you're alive. And so when something happens suddenly, there's challenges like, and I've mentioned these, but I just want to mention them Again, not knowing where accounts are located, you know, having to go on a hide-and-seek mission, right? You hid the accounts. Now the family's got to go seek them out. Missing or outdated beneficiaries. I mean, could you imagine? Listen, divorce is such a big part of life today. Could you imagine if you divorced somebody and you remarried and you've been remarried for a number of years and all of a sudden your new spouse found your ex-spouse's name on a life insurance policy? That would be awful.