Out of Body or just Out of My Mind? - Phoenix FM

So, after last month’s departure into the calculus classroom, with a lesson on the dangers of writing your own Will, this month we are back by popular demand with our family around the dinner table! This time the kids are asking Mum and Dad “So if it makes so much...

I’m quite often asked “Why don’t I just do the Will myself?”. Well, the answer is of course you can do it yourself, the same as you can service your car, install a kitchen, and rewire a house yourself! But the reason we don’t generally do that is that: We just don’t...

So, now that our nuclear family have sat around the dinner table and have cleared up things like inevitably dying, making a Will, and finally putting in place a Lasting Power of Attorney, one of the kids pipes up with the question all of them had been thinking. “I...

So, by now the family have not only had a heartfelt chat about death and arranging Wills but are now sometime into a rather deep discussion about what happens if either Mum or Dad lose their ability to make decisions for themselves. As with a lot of kids, the usual...

Following on from my recent November 2020 Blog, the family are now sitting around the dining table talking about, dare I say it aloud… ‘dying’. However, Mum and Dad are quite convinced that all will be ok should this unfortunate issue arise, without the need to set up...

So, as we all know, families sit around the dinner table and openly discuss ‘when they’re going to die’ and ‘who they want to have their savings, investments and property’ …said no-one ever! The truth is, that nobody likes talking about death, even someone like me,...