President of Teak Media, Jackie Herskovitz Russell, wrote an inspiring blog post about having “the conversation” with her family the morning after Thanksgiving.

It started with the requisite joke made by my Dad. “Bury me at Bloomingdale’s,” he said. “That way I know my daughters will visit me.”

Thanks for making it convenient for us, Dad! We appreciate your consideration.

If only end of life planning was that easy. But because it’s not, and there are many details to be worked out and agreed upon while all parties involved are still alive and lucid, my family took the morning after Thanksgiving to “have the conversation.”

Read the full blog post on the Teak website here.