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The survivor's guide [electronic resource] : what you need to know & what you need to do when someone close to you dies / V.K. Thornton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Los Angeles, CA : Silver Lake, ©2004.Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (324 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781563438103
  • 1563438100
  • 1563437767
  • 9781563437762
  • 1281039853
  • 9781281039859
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Survivor's guide.DDC classification:
  • 306.9 22
LOC classification:
  • GT3150 .T46 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminaries; Contents; A Tradition of Greed; When You Get the Call; In the Hours Afterward; Keeping Perspective; Disposition of the Body; Planning a Funeral or Memorial Service; Taking Care of Business; Settling the Estate; Using What You've Learned; Appendix A; Appendix B; Index.
Summary: Everyone's heard the stories: An aunt's husband dies and the vultures sweep in. She ends up paying $10,000 for a coffin, even more to a lawyer and then loses the rest of her money in shady investments. Thornton brings more than a decade of experience in human resources and financial education to an extremely emotional issue. And she gives vulnerable people easy-to-use tools for avoiding ... or dealing with ... crooks and crooked business. "The best treatment of this sensitive subject that we've seen."--Miami Herald.
Holdings
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eBook eBook e-Library EBSCO Social Science Available
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-307) and index.

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Everyone's heard the stories: An aunt's husband dies and the vultures sweep in. She ends up paying $10,000 for a coffin, even more to a lawyer and then loses the rest of her money in shady investments. Thornton brings more than a decade of experience in human resources and financial education to an extremely emotional issue. And she gives vulnerable people easy-to-use tools for avoiding ... or dealing with ... crooks and crooked business. "The best treatment of this sensitive subject that we've seen."--Miami Herald.

Preliminaries; Contents; A Tradition of Greed; When You Get the Call; In the Hours Afterward; Keeping Perspective; Disposition of the Body; Planning a Funeral or Memorial Service; Taking Care of Business; Settling the Estate; Using What You've Learned; Appendix A; Appendix B; Index.

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