Select:
In addition you will want to:
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Find someone to help answer sympathetic
phone calls, cards and letters, as well as greet friends
and relatives when they call.
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Decide appropriate memorial to which gifts
may be made (church, hospice, etc.).
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Prepare list of distance persons to be
notified by letter or print notice and decide which to
send.
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Check promptly on all debts and installment
payments, credit cards. Some carry insurance clauses that
cancel balance upon death.
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Check carefully all life and casualty
insurance and death benefits, including social security,
credit union, fraternal and military.
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Notify utilities and landlord and tell
post office where to send mail (if deceased was living
alone.
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If you
have to do a Funeral Planning,
try not to do everything yourself.
Call
on family
members or friends to help you make the arrangements.
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