If you had died yesterday – how prepared are your plans of what should happen to your estate and all your personal effects? What if you were suddenly taken ill and not able to communicate your wishes – would those around you really know the detail of how you wish to be cared for and what you would like to happen regarding your care and your personal affairs? If you were to be diagnosed with a terminal illness, have you considered what sort of care you would like and also where you would like to be cared for, as you come to the end of your life? These three topics of conversation are usually the most avoided, but we are in effect avoiding the inevitable and shying away from a fact that we all
This is really a metaphorical question for every detail about what happens to all of our responsibilities when we are no longer able to take care of them ourselves, either as a result of debilitating illness or our death. There is much to consider. If we are parents - who would look after the children? And if we are responsible for looking after elderly relatives, what happens to their care? What happens to our business, our possessions and all our other affairs? At any point in our life, it is well worth considering putting in place a Lasting Power of Attorney of which there are two aspects to consider - one being for Financial and Property and the other for Health and Welfare. We may think
