The Practical Side of Loss: An Estate Logistics Workbook

When someone dies, someone else becomes responsible for a hundred small tasks nobody explains in advance. Which accounts need to be closed. Who has to be notified. What proof each institution requires. Most grief resources focus on emotional support and skip the practical side entirely, leaving the person handling logistics to figure it out alone, usually while exhausted and grieving.

This workbook holds the logistics in one place so you don't have to hold them in your head. It covers ten areas: the first week's most urgent tasks, a directory for every attorney and advisor involved, a digital account inventory, a bill and subscription tracker, a government notification log, a financial claims tracker, a property and belongings decision log, a funeral logistics planner, a thank-you tracker, and a short weekly check-in for the person carrying the load.

Each form includes plain instructions: what it's for, when to use it, and how to fill it out. No legal advice. No grief platitudes. Just a clear place to put the details until there's time to deal with them.

This is not a checklist app or a generic planner. It was built specifically around the logistics that follow a death, based on the tasks people most often forget or don't know exist until they're already behind on them.

This is an instant PDF download you can read on any device or print at home for easy reference, so you can keep it open on your phone, print it, or share it with other family members working through the same situation.

Part of the Hard Things Made Simple: Grief & Loss series: practical workbooks for the parts of life nobody teaches you how to handle.