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Death Cartoon Collection on Estate Planning Issues
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Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, Funeral Expert Gail Rubin, The Doyenne of Death, Funeral Expert
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Dateline: Albuquerque, NM
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

 

The Funky Winkerbean cartoon recently did a collection of strips that followed Funky and his wife Holly to an estate planning attorney’s office to prepare a trust. He’s wise-cracking jokes all the way through the process, because mortality issues make most people nervous.

After a medical scare, he and the wife start talking about doing estate planning.

Funky Winkerbean estate plans

This sideways one, very unusual in the comics, looks at succession planning for his business.

Funky Winkerbean estate plans

The attorney starts to explain how an irrevocable trust works, with the assumption the man dies first (based on actuarial figures, this often is the case).

Funky Winkerbean estate plans

Funky still cracks the one-liners after the attorney explains how a trust works.

Funky Winkerbean estate plans

The attorney explains that a trust allows assets to flow to the spouse without having to go through probate court. Funky asks, “Were there a lot of people at my funeral?”

Funky Winkerbean estate plans

And then we have a little fun with the term “executrix.” That’s the female form of “executor,” the person charged with carrying out the details of the will or trust.

Funky Winkerbean estate plans

Did you know that less than 30% of adults in the U.S. have completed will or trust documents? Bravo to cartoonist Tom Batiuk for tackling these important social and educational issues! Don’t put off this important aspect of end-of-life planning.

Gail Rubin, CT, is author and host of the award-winning book and television series, A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die, Hail and Farewell: Cremation Ceremonies, Templates and Tips, and KICKING THE BUCKET LIST: 100 Downsizing and Organizing Things to Do Before You Die.

Rubin is a Certified Thanatologist (that's a death educator) and a popular speaker who uses humor and films to get the end-of-life and funeral planning conversation started. She "knocked 'em dead" with her TEDx talk, A Good Goodbye. She provides continuing education credit classes for attorneys, doctors, nurses, social workers, hospice workers, financial planners, funeral directors and other professionals. She's a Certified Funeral Celebrant and funeral planning consultant who has been interviewed in national and local print, broadcast and online media.

Known as The Doyenne of Death®, she also hosts A Good Goodbye Internet radio show and produces Mortality Minute radio and online video spots.

Rubin is a member of the Association for Death Education and Counseling, the International Cemetery, Cremation and Funeral Association, Toastmasters International and the National Speakers Association New Mexico Chapter. Her speaking profile is available at eSpeakers.com.

Gail Rubin has been interviewed about funeral planning issues in national and local broadcast, print and online media. Outlets include The Huffington Post, Money Magazine, Kiplinger, CBS Radio News, WGN-TV,  and local affiliates for NPR, PBS, FOX, ABC-TV, CBS-TV and NBC-TV.

Sign up for a free planning form and occasional informative newsletter at her website, AGoodGoodbye.com.
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