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.
Thinking about this ahead of time is a quiet act of care. You don’t need to plan every detail. A clear record of your wishes, contacts, and documents can spare the people you love a great deal of guessing.
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 Do not publish sensitive numbers here.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
Your plan can become the place your family begins.
With your permission, the people you trust can use your wishes and contacts to open a private Hestia planning room, share the work, compare providers, and make arrangements knowing what you wanted.
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