19 Sep
2021
19 Sep
'21
6:54 p.m.
On Sep 19, 2021, at 2:13 PM, Mike Katz via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I'm sorry if I made a bad joke. Please understand this was all tongue in cheek.
As for plans, I had a massive heart attack in June and nearly died. 8 stents and a
pacemaker later I am alive and kicking.
My suggestion's are:
Make a will.
Put all of your real estate and investments in a trust with you and your wife (and
possibly your next of kin) to avoid inheritance tax (I am no lawyer, so contact a lawyer
on how to do this)
Make sure there is a list of all bank account and credit card numbers some where where
both of you can access it (a safety deposit box or home safe comes to mind).
I would suggest that all of your passwords are kept in a password manager that both of
you have access to or encrypted somewhere with a password you both know.
In case you both were to die together, make sure your next of kin knows how to find or
access the above information.
If you have special requests for disposition of your property after you die, state it in
your will or make a list and put it in the safety deposit box mentioned above.
These are some of the things my wonderful wife and I did after my heat attack.
Please forgive the morbid nature of this but my perspective has changed since the heart
attack.
This is a very, very important point. At the start of Covid, I lost a very good friend to
a heart attack. He was an incredibly knowledgable professional photographer. With a
studio larger than most houses, and an insane amount of gear (including drum scanners).
From what little I know, the story doesn?t have a happy ending.
Both my wife and our eldest have a pretty good idea on the books, as well as the camera
gear. They have less of an idea on the Classic Computer equipment, though I know they
know it?s not worthless. They might have a better idea on the Video Games than me.
Zane