Providing a list of your financial details can be invaluable in the event of your death. Photograph: Getty Images

Could a Google doc of your financial affairs be the most caring thing you can do for the people you love?

Bank accounts, old work pensions, car loans – excavating all of this in the eventuality of your death can leave a mountain of admin for your loved ones.

That’s why every autumn, 45-year-old writer and ex-Goop alumni Elise Loehnen updates a simple Google document, shared with her husband and brother, with all of her boring but vital information.

“You want the people you love to be able to mourn without needing to hack into your email account,” says Loehnen. “You don’t want your partner or siblings guessing where you might have bank accounts.”

She’s had first hand experience of the admin mountain a death can create. When her best friend and brother-in-law died suddenly, she stepped up to help, she tells readers of her Substack, Pulling the Thread.

“Anyone who has gone through this process will tell you that one of the sharpest cruelties of the immediate aftermath of death is the endless paperwork,” she says.

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