If something happened to you tomorrow, would your family know what to do?

Would they know where your important documents are? Who to call? How to access your accounts? What your final wishes are? Or would they be left trying to piece together the life you built while also grieving your loss?

In Episode 24 of The Flip Side of Death, Lynn Stone shares a practical 10-step death planning checklist designed to help you get your affairs in order and make life easier for the people you love.

This isn't about expecting to die.

It's about preparing well enough that your family doesn't have to become detectives when something happens.

In this episode, you'll learn 10 practical steps you can take:

1. Create an “If Something Happens to Me” file with your essential information.
2. Review the beneficiaries on your life insurance, retirement accounts, investments, and other assets.
3. Make sure your will, powers of attorney, advance healthcare documents, trusts, and other estate documents exist and still reflect your wishes.
4. Document your digital life, including important accounts, subscriptions, cloud storage, social media, domains, cryptocurrency, and other digital assets.
5. Have important conversations with your family before there's a crisis.
6. Plan for incapacity—not just death—by deciding who can act on your behalf if you can't.
7. Create a financial snapshot of your assets, debts, insurance policies, accounts, and financial professionals.
8. Document your wishes for burial, cremation, funeral or memorial services, and other final arrangements.
9. If you own a business, create a continuity plan explaining what happens if you can no longer run it.
10. Choose at least one trusted person who knows where the entire roadmap can be found.

You don't have to complete everything today.

Pick one thing. Start there. Then keep going.

Because death planning isn't about expecting to die. It's about making sure the people you love aren't left trying to figure out the life you built.

Give them a roadmap.

Don't make them guess.

Death is inevitable. Chaos is optional.