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Many projects use Gantt charts. The chart covers information about project tasks like their titles, start and end dates, and durations. A Gantt chart also shows task lengths and relationships in a visually obvious way.

The one interesting fact that stood out from my reading of NOLO’s website (http://www.nolo.com) was that a living will bears no relation to the conventional will or living trust used to leave property at death. It opened my mind to two facts:

1. I must make a living will (&/or advance directive) for end-of-life planning, and
2. I must also make a conventional will (&/or living trust) for post death wish declaration

I hope we are in the same boat today. I am planning for my end of life, and I am being proactive. I am hoping that you are doing it proactively too. But hey, if not, I mean if you are doing it as a reaction to a situation that has recently arisen for you and you must get ready to go, I believe life is infinite. As an experience, it has always been there with you since you were conscious before your birth, and it will always be there with you because you (and me, and everybody else) will die before you know it.

You can start End-of-Life Planning proactively, or reactively. Sometime the choice is unfortunately not yours.

You can do it proactively if like me, if no doctor has told you that you will die in X months. Not yet at least. I still would like to remain ready for that eventuality (well, if an accident killed me then if it happened after step 7 “Live - Enjoy Your Bucket List!” of my previous blog, “End of Life List of Seven”, I’d be dead laughing...)

Now that I have (almost) collated the initial information for End of Life Planning, here is the next step – to make my own list and act on it.

End of Life can happen anytime. Planning for my life’s end is not the same thing as planning to end my life. It is only about being intelligently proactive.
As I waded through the jargon in section 1233 of the healthcare bill (which by the way I am using as a set of cues to help me make my list) I realized that I needed a cleaner list.

That list, sieved out of section 1233, is here.

1. Key questions and considerations, important steps, and suggested people to talk to
2. Living wills and durable  powers of attorney, and their uses

My scare about the insurance company refusing to pay me the $100,000 for my loved one’s treatment, and all of us going broke because of it, had hardly subsided when I read this in Chicago Tribune today – “After aneurysm, Assurant Health causes further headaches” (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-tue-problem-insurance-0929sep29,0,1926150.column). There we go again.

President Obama wants to be the last president who tried to settle America's healthcare debate ("I am not the first President to take up this cause, but I am determined to be the last." Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/09/obama-health-care-speech_n_281265.html). The cause he is talking about has already been introduced on a blog published on this site.

High school students and parents of high school students know they have to plan for college.  Planning for college is very close to deciding how the career of the student will begin.  If one files through Google search results or speaks with guidance counselors, then weeks can go making the final plan for college without knowing what questions to ask or which direction to take.  However, I always like to work top down on any planning activity so I have changed the approach a little.