How it works
Six short sections, one letter
Answer what you want to answer. Everything you skip stays off the letter. You can change it at any time from your private link.
Wishes
Choose what you want done: burial, cremation, green (natural) burial, donation of my body to science, entombment in a mausoleum, or leave it to your family. Add a note: a plot you already own, where ashes should go.
Service
No service, a private family time, a funeral, a memorial, a graveside service or a celebration of life. Viewing or not, where, who leads it, music, readings, flowers or donations.
Budget
Write the most you want spent, then your own budget lines: item, who is paid (funeral home, cemetery, cash advance, other), the amount and where the price came from. The totals and the gap to your ceiling update when you save. A starter list adds the usual item names, without amounts. Free letters hold one budget of 12 lines; the Planning Pass keeps up to 3 budgets side by side.
Paying
How it will be paid (money set aside, a payable-on-death account, life insurance, a prepaid contract, family), whether anything is prepaid and with whom, and where the papers are. The FTC warns that a family that does not know about a prepaid plan can pay twice.
People
Who should make the decisions, who to tell first (names only) and where the letter is kept.
Your words
“Please do”, “Please don’t”, and a message to the people you leave.
Print and tell
The letter prints on one or two pages. The wallet card says that your wishes are written down, where the letter is and who to ask.
Family links
Give someone a read-only link. It always shows the letter as it is now. Each link has its own key and can be turned off on its own. Links you made keep working whatever happens to a Pass.
What it is not
A letter of wishes is not a will, a contract or a legal instruction, and the rules about who may decide differ from state to state. If you want your wishes to bind, the FTC suggests: “You may wish to consult an attorney on the best way to ensure that your wishes are followed.”