ABSTRACT
Dealing with issues of your own mortality inevitably arouses anxiety. This anxiety can be even greater when you consider the possibility that your partner may predecease you. Therapists are no different from their clients in their wish to avoid anxiety. Understandable though this may be, it is imperative that therapists make thoughtful, practical decisions about end-of-life issues. Whatever your net worth, estate planning is a vital piece of a well thought-out financial plan. The last gift a person can offer loved ones is an estate plan that protects them after his or her death. Likewise, therapists owe it to themselves to ensure that their own financial well-being is protected should their life partner predecease them.
