Women usually handle family deaths. Here's how to make it easier for everyone.

I was gifted years to love my uncle, a WWII POW, and to be with him as he died just short of his 104th BD. The way he planned his death was a gift to me. Mary Braun Bates, MD tells us how to do that.

Our uncle, the last of our parents’ generation, planned everything about his death a decade before it happened. He paid for the mortuary and cemetery years in advance and left detailed medical and burial instructions everywhere for those of us left behind. I’ve been in healthcare all this lifetime and maybe others, but I learned so much from what he did…