Review: In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: How to Organize Your Life Now for When You're Not Around Later

In Case You Get Hit by a Bus: How to Organize Your Life Now for When You're Not Around Later by Abby Schneiderman
My rating: 4 of 5 stars



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Publisher's Description

 When Abby Schneiderman's brother was killed in a head-on collision by an impaired driver, her family was thrust into a position many families experience: they were shocked, heartbroken, and unsure what to do next. While her brother had made some financial arrangements, her family had no idea what he would have wanted and had to make all sorts of stressful (and expensive) decisions in an incredibly short amount of time.

Out of this tragedy came the focus of Everplans, a digital company that Abby co-founded with fellow tech entrepreneur Adam Seifer to help people of all ages organize their lives and legacy now—so that their loved ones won't have to later.

Drawing on the wealth of experience from Abby, Adam, and Gene Newman, here is a clearly designed and easy-to-follow program to help even the most disorganized reader take control of modern life's burgeoning mess of on- and off-line details. Breaking the job down into three levels, from the most urgent (granting access to passwords, outlining a financial blueprint) to the technical (creating a manual for the systems in your home, understanding legal documents) to the nostalgic (assembling a living memory complete with photos, recipes, and significant stories)), IN CASE YOU GET HIT BY A BUS takes the anxiety and stress out of putting your life in order and covers just about any contingency, helping you leave the best parting gift you could ever imagine.

My Thoughts 

I received an eARC courtesy of Workman Publishing Company via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

I am all for the content. It was broken down and simplified. I feel like it covered more than what many people need, but since everyone needs different information this all-encompassing style is useful.

Now I need to say something with regards to the format of this book. What is with the two-column newspaper style? Yikes. I, personally, did not care for this at all. It was probably the main reason why this book has taken me so long to get through.

For Libraries: With any luck some of the formatting issues and typos will be fixed prior to final publication, but I strongly recommend scanning through prior to purchase just in case. Otherwise, the content is wonderful and useful.