People
Choose trusted contacts
Record who should be contacted, who knows your wishes, and who you would want involved in funeral, legal, healthcare, spiritual, or family decisions.
Planning ahead
Prepare what matters, before your family has to ask.
You do not need to plan every detail. A clear record of your wishes, contacts, documents, and preferences can give the people you trust a useful record to begin with.
Wishes
Describe what matters to you
Note preferences for burial or cremation, ceremony style, faith or cultural traditions, music, readings, obituary information, and how you want to be remembered.
Information
Make important records findable
List where key documents, insurance details, military records, cemetery arrangements, digital instructions, and provider agreements can be found. Do not publish sensitive numbers here.
Practical Tennessee preparation
Identify the person likely to have legal authority for disposition decisions.
Record any existing funeral, cremation, cemetery, insurance, or prepaid arrangements.
Discuss an approximate budget and whether funds or insurance may be available.
Keep your legal name, birth information, family details, and military history accessible.
Review wishes periodically and tell a trusted person where the current version is kept.
What Hestia does and does not do
Hestia helps organize information and family coordination. It does not create a will, advance directive, healthcare proxy, prepaid funeral contract, or legally binding disposition authorization.
Use the appropriate Tennessee professional when legal, medical, financial, or licensed funeral advice is required.
See Tennessee informationWhen the time comes
A preparation plan can become the starting point for a family case.
With the plan owner’s authorization, trusted relatives can use known wishes and contacts to create a private Hestia family space, divide responsibilities, research providers, and coordinate the immediate arrangements.
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