Die without pain, and where you wanted to
Most people want to die at home; most die in institutions.
4 solutions built for it
Palliative care, Hospice, Medical aid in dying and Death doulas.
Where Mortality meets Death. Everyone dies, and unusually among animals, knows it in advance. That advance knowledge is what makes life insurance, wills, trusts, hospice, monuments, and religion possible. Mortality is also the only constant that produces businesses serving people who no longer exist, paid fo…
7 frictions
The body can still help someone else
Organs, tissue, and the body itself have uses after death.
1 solutions built for it
The body must be dealt with within days
The oldest industry, with a hard deadline.
4 solutions built for it
Funeral homes, Cremation, Cemeteries and Green burial and alternative disposition.
Everything owned must go to someone
Property, accounts, debts, and belongings must be legally re-owned.
4 solutions built for it
Estate and trust attorneys, Probate, Estate tax planning and Digital legacy and account inheritance tools.
The survivors must go on
Grief has no market fix, so the market sells around it.
3 solutions built for it
Grief counselling and support groups, Memorial services and wakes and Bereavement leave.
Do not want to be forgotten
The last status purchase, made in advance or by the heirs.
4 solutions built for it
Headstones and monuments, Obituaries, Online memorial pages and Charitable bequests and naming gifts.
The name and the line continue, or do not
Bequests to grandchildren, family foundations, and the will's last clause.
3 solutions built for it
Genealogy and DNA ancestry, Charitable bequests and naming gifts and Family foundations and dynasty trusts.