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Section one, free

People to call. Section one of the book in full, and the beginning of section two. Ten minutes with a pen, and the page that matters most on a bad day.

The page appears right here, and arrives by email at the same moment.

A few short emails about filling it in follow. One click unsubscribes, and your address is never passed on.

The free section one, as it arrives: People to call, laid out for a pen.

What is on it

Who to call in the first hour, the first day and the first week.

Ordered by when each call would be made, not by how important the person is, because on the day those are different things. Print it, fill it in with a pen, and put it where the other person would look first.

Two more pages come with it: all twelve section titles, and the start of section two, the documents that get asked for first.

Why it is free

Because it is the best section to judge the book by. If it is useful, the other eleven are laid out the same way and cost $14. If it is not, you have spent ten minutes and your family has a page it should have anyway.

Nothing you write comes back to us

The page is a PDF on your own machine and a sheet of paper in your own house. Nothing typed or written on it is sent anywhere. The only thing we hold is the address you asked us to send it to, and the page is stamped with it so the copy is plainly yours.

The other eleven

Where things are. Money. Insurance. The house. Vehicles. Work and benefits. Medical. Digital life. Subscriptions. Dependents and pets. Wishes and letters. Then the First Week at the front, for whoever opens it.

If it is not right for your house, write within thirty days and we refund you.