Website that helps you plan for death finds success with millennials - A great checklist for things many don't think about
Liz Eddy has lost track of how many times she's told the story that led her to co-found Lantern, a website that helps people tackle the complex logistics of losing someone they love and also plan for their own deaths.
That story starts with a phone call on a Saturday morning from a nursing home with news that Eddy's grandmother had died. Two police officers and a nurse greeted Eddy in the room where her grandmother's body lay.
"They looked at me and said, 'What do you want to do?'" recalls Eddy, who was 27 at the time. "I had no idea what to turn to ... and really was just thrown into a rapid Google search where I typed in what do you do when someone dies?"
The site is free to use to create checklists for someone else's death or to plan for your own. Many elderly people have time to ponder over this and have often done their own planning, but the youth rarely do so. This site is a useful way of creating task lists of things to get done and planned for. In traditional families there are often strong beliefs about burial versus cremation and I've seen the youth give in to elders where they know it is contrary to the wishes of the departed family member, but those wishes were not expressed to the family.
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Lantern wants to make planning for death totally normal.
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