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🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | Glad you're with us here on the Clark Howard Show where it's about your empowerment with |
0:10.1 | knowledge so you can keep more of what you have. |
0:14.0 | And I want to talk about something that is a deadly topic. |
0:18.9 | It's about what happens when we're not here anymore. |
0:23.3 | Something that for many of us is a very uncomfortable conversation. |
0:28.5 | And so we avoid it, we ignore it and all the rest to the detriment of the loved ones who |
0:36.6 | are grieving that we leave behind. |
0:39.2 | I'm very much a believer that we have a responsibility to those we love to make sure they know what |
0:49.0 | our wishes are, what arrangements we want in all the rest. |
0:52.4 | And I'll get questions about that and far, far more this year as people have been worried |
0:59.1 | about their mortality in a pandemic. |
1:02.6 | So I've talked about writing up your wishes and having them there making sure that loved |
1:12.8 | ones know and do not put anything like that in a safety deposit box and don't be silent |
1:18.1 | about you having done it because you want to make sure that they know where to find |
1:25.0 | your desires. |
1:26.3 | And my wife is very uncomfortable talking about my death. |
1:34.5 | Some reason talking about life and death just doesn't phase me at all. |
1:39.3 | And I talk about it like, hey, you know what flavor ice cream do you want? |
1:43.4 | And it just drives her crazy. |
1:45.7 | And we've had clear conversations about what each of us want at the time of our death. |
1:54.4 | I'm older so I go first. |
1:57.2 | So more of the conversation has been about that. |
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