This is the part written for the people who are still alive — not because they are expecting someone to die, but because nobody packs a parachute while they are already falling out of the plane.

Death himself leaves the note.

He has watched what happens when families are forced to make hundreds of decisions in the middle of catastrophic loss. Siblings fighting over funeral music. People searching filing cabinets for a will that was never updated. Partners discovering passwords, policies, accounts and responsibilities they never knew existed.

The grief is already unbearable. The administrative chaos doesn't need to make it worse. So the book asks couples to prepare “before” the crisis. Not by sitting around imagining death.

By doing something much more practical: “Pack the parachute.”