Name: Preparing Loved Ones for Your Death
Start: 2025-04-23T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-04-23T18:00:00-07:00
Location: The Mehdi Reading Room

Preparing Loved Ones for Your Death

Steps to Ease the Burden of Your Passing

Date:: Wednesday, April 23
Time:: 6:00 pm PDT
Cost:: $10 – $35 Sliding Scale

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Venue

: The Mehdi Reading Room
: 1119 8th Ave
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Event Format: In-Person

Note: Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.

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There are many steps you can take to ease the burden for loved ones upon your death. First and foremost, giving trusted individuals access in advance to the information they’ll need to settle your affairs. Secondly, deciding how you want your home, pets, car, and sentimental or valuable items managed. And finally, how you want to be honored and remembered, giving guidance on your obituary, a gathering to celebrate your life and how you want to manage your disposition. Join Wendy Norman from Worry-Free Wednesdays to learn about the tools you can use and the steps you can take to put “loved ones in the know, before you go.”

Wendy Norman is the founder of Worry-Free Wednesdays. She has been researching and engaging with end-of-life issues for over 15 years. Her interest was sparked by her mother’s diagnosis of early-onset Alzheimer’s in 2006. This is when she learned the importance of having a plan before becoming ill, especially when cognitive decline is involved. Wanting to help others understand the value of pre-planning, she became an end-of-life planning consultant in 2017. In 2019, she left a 25-year career in marketing and program management at Microsoft to invest her time and energy toward end-of-life planning, education, and awareness. In 2020 she helped create and lead a team of volunteers to launch an education and awareness program called End of Life Ready hosted by End of Life Washington. Building on that experience, Worry-Free Wednesdays was created to broaden and deepen end-of-life education.

Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Worry Free Wednesdays.