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Everyone should have an option to convey to their loved ones specific personal wishes in the event of their death; on the same conceptual idea the deceased should have his/her personal wishes respected and carried out to the best of the families ability — due to excessive funeral cost life insurance should be looked into, with premiums kept up. The time that in which immediately follows the death of a loved one is a time filled with an intense abundance of grief, sorrow, and stress; it is during this time that family members are pressured into making “final arrangements”. In reality, due to the human emotions that come with death; no one should be forced to make decisions while grieving; yet this has never been an respected by funeral homes that wish to speed up the process for monetary gain. Guided by a Funeral Director, the job of such is to sympathetically assist the grieving family with the finalization of funeral arrangements; however how can a complete stranger tell a devastated family what the last wishes of the deceased are, without personally knowing and talking to them? — some believe that the job of the Funeral Director is to sympathetically play on the emotions to obtain more money, as a funeral may cost in excess of $15,000.

MyWonderfulLife.com was created with the objective to allow a person, to choose their own post mortem arrangements; and have those arrangements carried out, to their wishes –- its creation, in 2006, followed the death of co-founder Nancy Bush’s husband; a fight lost with cancer. This man put up a remarkable fight, in his battle and felt that by conversing about his last wishes he was in essence “giving up.” Within that principal the website was structured to make it easier for him and others to write their personal wishes, leave letters to loved ones, and recount memories of good times. Sue Kruskopf, owner of an online agency for advertising, created MyWonderfulLife.com as a co-founder; as the new-age of personal post mortem wishes within a technologically interconnected generation leading to its popular success.  

With only one final chance to make an impression that impression must be made to reflect wishes now; so that eternal peace may be found later. Prior to signing up with an account, each inquisitive mind can preview a video based tutorial, detailing functions – to determine if this site is the right site to create  their last wishes at, even if sites of this subject is limited to very few thus far online. Signing up with an account with MyWonderfulLife is free for all, without restrictions other than that of the Terms of Service; users must provide a valid address so that their custom book, similar to personal wishes books free at most funeral homes, can be provided in accuracy for funeral arrangements to be made — making it easier to families, during their time of grief and sorrow, to know of the wishes of their loved on that should be respected with full honors.  Once an address is supplied; second an account user name and unique password must be set; as on all socialization accounts and website memberships, and the service/use agreement agreed to. Each password must be of seven characters and contain both letters and numbers, reducing the risk of account hacking; after confirming the email is corrected the book is ready to be started.

Each book bares the given name of the creator and opens to the inside contents; users can fill out as much, or as little information, as they wish to per chapter. Depending on what each diverse user of MyWonderfulLife decides to do, it may take from five, upwards to ten minutes; however, at any time a user can choose to leave their customizations and return at a later date to finish — a respectful concept for those users battling terminal illness and writing information in ill health. Users can also choose to skip information, at will; making MyWonderfulLife the most advanced tool for post mortem wishes on the Internet today.

Each, MyWonderfulLife, book has ten unique chapters; included within these chapters is that of personal information, body/burial preferences, funeral personalization, funeral photo album, music database, writings/poems/quotes, memories/thoughts/values, information regarding children and animals, letters to loved ones, and lastly important information. On the left side of each customized book, MyWonderfulLife has taken the liberty to explain the chapter from a detailed perspective to assist the author with his/her unique choices, for that section. Depending on the section, options can be selected or text can be filled out in detail; with an option to save the selection or save and continue onward. Once finished each user can review the unique wishes they have chosen and moderations can be made up to a point of satisfaction; MyWonderfulLife provides inspiration and “angels” –- these angels family, friends, and/or loved ones online will be the designated ones who know about your MyWonderfulLife booklet.

• → Personal Information: Includes personal information such as name, address, phone, and email; this information can be subjected to modification at any time by the author. Angels, or loved ones that you wish to see the book and contact you on the site are chosen here; and profile photos can be changed at will here also.

• →Body Wishes: First asks each user if they are an organ donor, giving more information; organ donors must be registered with the back of their drivers license signed –- restrictions apply, thus this choice must be  looked into prior. The second step within this chapter, is to choose information for the disposal of the body; such as a traditional funeral, cremation, green burial, science donation, and a field is supplied for other choices.

• →Funeral Wishes: Within this chapter, the author can personalize his/her unique wishes for the funeral; such as where it should be held, should it be open or closed to only the family and/or listed friends, and choices in regards to a visitation. MyWonderfulLife has provided a text box at the end of this section, and subsequent sections, to write specific instructions and wishes; providing detail that if wanted could detail the entire funeral service — down to who is and who isn’t allowed in. Again personal customizations are based on the authors wants, with as much or as limited detail as the user wishes to provide. This section also goes into information regarding the burial service if applicable, reception, memorial, obituary, memory marker/grave stone, and the program. Again, MyWonderfulLife, as took a deep respect in the wishes of their users; allowing them the ability to create their own full obituary so that it implicitly includes their full views to convey in print, yielding the ability for the author to determine the accurate text to include on the grave stone, allowing the author also the ability to write his/her own program, and pre-plan in full the memorial service, reception, and burial in the same respect as the funeral service.

• →Photo Album: Common in modern day funeral services is remembrance though life photos, this section allows the author to choose up to twenty-five photos that should be included at the visitation, service, and burial if wishes include such. MyWonderfulLife, knows that usually the loved one of the deceased choose their favorite photo memories; but wish to allow the author to choose twenty-five him/herself for wishes to be respected – each holding symbolic meaning that can be detailed in the funeral detail chapter the book.

• →Music: While ideas are gave, regarding funeral songs; this chapter allows the author to list song name, artist, and designate if the song should be played at the funeral service. MyWonderfulLife provides more options for those avid music lovers or those who want to list a song for every event in their prior life. Information regarding the song, similar to the photos above, can be detailed if one desires that option.

• →Writings/Poems/Quotations: This respectful chapter allows the author to detail their own personal words, to be included in their funeral service; limiting it none. Also MyWonderfulLife allows the author the chance to share writing, poems, or quotations that have inspired them the most though out life or illness. Making for a more personal experience this chapter honors the deceased in full, by giving the satisfaction that personal words will be read to all in attendance. As with the song database, more options can be added for additional words; and if wished the author can write a short statement to all involved love ones –- as well as give advice that together they will be again, and so forth.

• →Memories/Thoughts/Values: Seperated into three unique sections, each author can share their memories within their life on Earth; in as much or as few points of detail as wanted. Second, MyWonderfulLife, has provided a exceptional “thought” questionnaire for authors to fill out with limited to full detail; this allows for information to be known about the deceased that may have previously went without knowledge — such as personal motto, favorite occupation, greatest regret, greatest extravagance, admired individuals, and so forth. Third, a text box is yielded to tell of personal values as a indication of who the deceased really was by personal definition, by detailing each and every personal value; leaving behind information on what value to instill in children/family, what values should be taught to a son/daughter  when he/she becomes of a certain age, and so forth without a limitation of what can be written –- a wonderful and deeply touching, thoughtful addition to this chapter.

• →Pets/Children: The author, within this chapter, has the ability to reflect themselves on how their children should be raised; even after leaving this life. Also the author can detail who obtains pets/animals and what should happen to them in the event of death. Both of these sections are detailed to assist in the author getting his/her personal family wishes though; such as likes/dislikes in raising children, health concerns in regards to these children, and important information that the author wants others to have knowledge in.

• →Letters to Loved Ones: MyWonderfulLife, provides a chapter that will allow expressions to be made in text to all loved ones; these letters can be read at the funeral if wished for, in private, or for children read at a certain age –- each author has full control of their personalized letters as they do with their funeral arrangement wishes. A letter can provide the perfect outlet for words unsaid, so no the author has no regrets – providing for a smoother transition for the loved ones in third time of grief.

• →Other Information: Lastly, MyWonderfulLife has allotted a comprehensive text section for the author to tell of additional detail that should be made clear to loved ones; these are intimate detail that are usually reserved for the partner/spouse and/or children –- however, in a customized book no mention is made of who can gain access to this chapter, unless wrote in prior.  This section details all banking institution and provides a text box to give forth the numbers to the accounts and balance per account; a section also exists for insurance policies, mortgage information, investment/stock information, and vehicle information. The supplied text box is a wonderful place to provide policy numbers, financial standings, automobile VIN numbers, and also tell of who may inherit what and how anything should be allocated of monetary value as an asset. New to this twenty-first century is social media presence, so a section is provided to detail each social media account and provide account details and pass codes for those accounts; so they can be inherited and exist after death.

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