I just completed a list of sources for my son to use once I casually die.

I mean depart, expire, fade away, kick the bucket, enter death’s door but not “pass away.”

No Plans to Soften an Inevitable Exercise

     The great philosophical Comedian George Carlin preached against the use of the phrase “pass on,” because it masked the truth, making discussions about death less honest. He said that It tended to soften the impact of one’s lose.

     He believed it was important to confront death directly rather than sugarcoat it.

     And so, I contacted every source I had for savings, investments and CDs making sure I had the correct account numbers as well as their phone numbers. I then ensured that my son Nicholas was the beneficiary and requested that he be added if such information was missing.

Boy Did I Feel Good!

     I did it all in one setting, using both my cell phone and laptop computer and then writing down all the details on a “post it stamp” at my home in Conshohocken, PA.

Now I need to buy a USB Device and share all of the information onto it and give the device to my son.

     Wait a Minute.

I just remembered that he will have to contact every firm where I have automatic payments set up. Monthly Charity contribitions as well.

     In addition, he will have to call the Veterans Administration to halt disability payments from my Vietnam War service as well as the Social Security Administration and two firms that have been providing payments from my deceased wife’s newspaper pension fund.

     One of them is for $14.27 a month for when she worked one year at the old Philadelphia Bulletin Newspaper. The other more larger amount payment comes from her pensions while being a copy eiditor for the Philadelphia Inquirer as well as the Daily News.

       Well, I’ll just dig around a little more for each payment source sometime shortly before I depart. But I’m in no hurry. Neither is my son the last time I checked.