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Conversation Prep

The End-of-Life Wishes Conversation Prep Sheet

One Page. Before the Crisis Makes This Conversation Impossible.

The conversation is hard. Not having it is harder on everyone.

This is for:

For the person who knows the end-of-life conversation needs to happen and does not know how to start it — with an aging parent, a seriously ill loved one, or a partner.

You'll produce:your Your End-of-Life Wishes Prep Sheet

The Name It First Experience

Most people know they need to have this conversation. They do not know how to start it without making it feel like planning for something nobody wants to name. This prep sheet gives you the questions to cover, the order to cover them, and a single page for recording what matters most. The output is not a legal document. It is Your End-of-Life Wishes Prep Sheet — a stress-tested, signed record of the wishes named and the conversation had.

You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.

Sample questions

  1. What do you want the people you love to know and be able to do when the time comes?
  2. What decisions have you been avoiding making — and what would it mean to make them now?
  3. What does having this conversation while there is still time actually make possible?

Research basis

Byock on the four things that matter most in end-of-life conversations / Tulsky on communication skills training for end-of-life discussions / Gawande on mortality and medical decision-making

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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.

Essential path

Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.

Full depth

Every question. Every scenario, every angle.

Paper doesn’t change its mind.

Thoughts change. Documents don’t. The answers you write are there when you return — unchanged by memory or mood.

You won’t just feel clearer — you’ll have written proof of what you decided.

Writing is the mechanism by which internal clarity becomes external evidence. Evidence you can return to, share, and hold someone — including yourself — accountable to.

Every question is answerable by everyone.

Every question in every title is answerable by the person for whom the assumed experience is true and by the person for whom it is not. No reader is excluded by how a question is built.

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