Professor Francine Lipman of Chapman University has written a touching essay entitled Celebrating Life (Chai) and Taxes: Lessons Learned (available in downloadable format) where she describes her experiences dealing with her mother’s illness and death, on both an emotional and an estate planning level.
While many estate and financial planners regularly deal with these problems on a “professional” level, living the problem — as Prof. Lipman has done — is something we will all face at one time or another. That is, if we live long enough to do it.