‘Delicate Topic’

I am writing to thank you for your recent article “Talk About a Delicate Topic” in the Jan. 9, 2014, issue of The Alabama Baptist. As an attorney who frequently deals with the legal side of such issues, I can see the drastic and sometimes destructive problems that are caused by a lack of planning by an individual for the end of his or her life. I am grateful for others like yourself who help to spread the importance of such documents to everyone. Failure to plan ahead for such measure can have a negative effect on a recently departed person’s friends and family, both internally and in their relationships with one another.

When I speak about estates and other end-of-life documents I tell people that end-of-life documents are a way to give peace of mind to oneself and a gift of peace of mind and assurance to those who survive you. I appreciate others who send the same message in order to support people in what is a difficult but very important topic.

David Benton King
Gadsden, Ala.