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Future File is a comprehensive, easy-to-use “grabbable” kit. It can be used to organize an individual’s wishes and information, as well as to offer a roadmap for their loved ones to follow for aging, emergencies, and death. Future File was created by business and financial expert and New York Times best-selling author Carol Roth and her sister, after they lost four loved ones. Its mission is to help families ease some burdens and save time and money as they deal with the challenges presented by life events.
Future File helps you gather in one location everything you’ll need for critical family events—such as emergencies, aging, or passings—including wills, information on powers of attorney, emergency contact information, spare keys, financial accounts, medical information, social media wishes, aging-care wishes, and so much more. It comes in either a physical kit or a Windows-based software application.
Carol immediately recognized how this kit could be a resource for doulas, to help their clients in planning and dealing with the aftermath of death. She notes, “Whether it is an individual who is terminally ill and wants to lessen the burdens for their family, facilitating family discussions before a loved one passes to help get everyone on the same page, or just providing the necessary to-dos, Future File is an excellent way for doulas to connect with and create additional impact to the already valuable and compassionate services and assistance they are providing families in a critical time of need.”
The creation of Future File was very personal for Carol and her sister. After they lost several loved ones—including their mother and stepmother to long illnesses—their father, Bernie, created a file for his daughters to use if something happened to him. In May of 2013, that dreaded day came unexpectedly, when Bernie was found unresponsive in his car. Carol brought the file to the hospital, and she was able to authorize emergency surgery and supply important information on her father’s medical history and providers.
When Bernie did not make it through surgery successfully, Carol and her sister were faced with the difficult decision of taking him off life support. Fortunately, they had all discussed that scenario and were able to follow his wishes. Carol said, “The biggest gift of having this roadmap was not walking around with the burden of wondering if we made the right decision. We knew we followed our father’s wishes.”