For Families
For the people who will one day open this.
If someone you love has set up a Final Lantern account and named you as a contact, this page is for you.
If someone you love has set up a Final Lantern account and named you as a contact, this page is for you.
A complete record of their information, organized by section. Their accounts, their wishes, their contacts, their documents and where they live. Things they may have never said out loud but wrote down for you to find.
Open the section called The First 72 Hours. It tells you what needs to happen in the first day. Who to call. What paperwork to request. How many death certificates to order and from whom.
You do not have to do everything in the first day. Most things can wait a week. The First 72 Hours section is ordered so you can do exactly what needs doing now, and nothing more.
This is a map. It is not a legal executor, and it does not replace a probate attorney if one is needed. If there is an estate, a will, or a trust, the legal process still applies. The Final Lantern makes that process dramatically easier because the information is already organized.
The most common thing we hear is a version of: I did not know how much I did not know. Families who receive a completed Final Lantern describe it as the difference between drowning and standing on solid ground. It does not make grief smaller. It makes the logistics survivable.
Many people find this page after going through the experience of losing someone without a system like this. If you are here because of that, we are sorry. And if it is prompting you to prepare something for your own family, that is one of the most meaningful things you can do.