How I Created My Wishes: Planning Your Farewell | A Funeral Planning Workbook to Guide Your Loved Ones

For almost 30 years, my husband has worked as a funeral director. He followed in his father’s footsteps… and his father before him. Three generations of caring for families during one of the most difficult moments of their lives.

Over the years, he has come home and shared the same heartbreaking theme again and again: families, lost in the black fog of grief, struggling to make decisions they wish they didn’t have to guess.

When someone you love dies, you are instantly thrown into emotional shock — and yet you’re expected to make dozens of important decisions:

• Would they want to be buried or cremated?
• What music should we play?
• Who should speak?
• What would they want their farewell to feel like?

He has watched countless families sit in silence, trying desperately to remember what their loved one may have said years earlier… or wishing they had asked more questions.

The Moment I Realised Something Was Missing

One evening, after hearing yet another story of a family overwhelmed with decisions, I said to him:

“There must be a better way for people to leave their wishes clearly.”

It was that moment when the idea first took root — a guided workbook where anyone could write down their wishes, memories, instructions, and the small but important details that families desperately need.

Not a legal document.

Not something cold or complicated.

But a warm, thoughtful, easy-to-use book to bring clarity during heartbreak.

That’s how My Wishes: Planning Your Farewell was born.

If you’d like to leave your loved ones clarity, comfort, and direction, you can order your hardback copy of My Wishes: Planning Your Farewell here.