Personal End-of-Life Planning

Set the stage
for what comes next.

A complete record of your life — accounts, documents, wishes, and the words you'd want to leave behind — organized so the people you love won't have to search backstage when the lights come up.

Stored Locally
No Cloud, No Servers
You Hold the Keys

It's not a rehearsal.

When the script suddenly changes, the people you love shouldn't have to improvise. They shouldn't be hunting through drawers for the will, calling around to find your accountant, or guessing what you wanted at your service. Exit Stage Life is the program — the one place where every name, number, document, and wish is written down, in order, ready for the moment it's needed.

Out of the wings, into the program.

Three things this tool does that scattered notes, dusty binders, and a thousand browser bookmarks cannot.

One stage, every act

Accounts, documents, contacts, passwords, medical history, final wishes — gathered into a single, organized place instead of scattered across drawers, inboxes, and your memory.

A guide, not a blank page

Each section walks you through what to record and why it matters, with prompts written for real life — so nothing essential gets cut from the final scene.

Built for your cast

When your plan needs to be used, your family or executor sees a clean, readable program — not a database. They find what they need without learning your filing system.

67%
of U.S. adults don't have a will or any estate plan in place
16 mo
average time to settle an estate when records aren't organized in advance
100+
online accounts the average adult leaves behind for family to manage

The moments your program goes on stage.

Five everyday situations where Exit Stage Life turns a frantic search into a calm hand-off.

The unexpected hospital visit

Paramedics ask for your medication list, your primary doctor, your allergies, and your healthcare proxy. Your partner doesn't have to think — they pull up your program and read it off.

You're traveling and something goes wrong

Family at home can find your travel insurance, the credit card to call about a missing wallet, your passport scan, and your emergency contacts — without rifling through your desk.

A parent passes

The executor needs the will, the attorney's name, the safe-deposit-box bank, the life insurance policies, the digital accounts, the funeral preferences. Instead of weeks of detective work, it's one document.

Cognitive decline creeps in

A spouse or child takes over day-to-day finances. Account numbers, recurring bills, the mortgage holder, the password manager recovery — all already written down, while you could still write them down.

The final scene arrives

Your family knows what you wanted — burial or cremation, songs to play, charities to honor, who not to invite — because you said so, in your own words, before the moment.

The Sunday afternoon of peace

The most common scenario, and the quietest. You finish a section, hit save, and know that one more thing your family would have struggled with is no longer their problem.

Every scene of your life, accounted for.

Exit Stage Life is organized into four acts. Each one covers a specific stretch of what your family or executor will need — what you track, and why it matters.

Act One

Home Life

The day-to-day details that hold a household together — and that no one but you knows by heart.

What you record
  • Health: primary doctor, specialists, medications, allergies, conditions, medical devices, medical records, blood type, insurance
  • Money & finances: bank accounts, investment accounts, retirement plans, real estate, vehicles, debts
  • Family & contacts: spouse, children, parents, siblings, close friends, family history & genealogy
  • Personal organization: home address, where keys live, who has copies, recurring services
  • Pets: vet, feeding schedule, medications, who takes them if you can't
Why it matters

When the unexpected happens — an ER visit, a sudden illness, a fall — your family's first questions are: who's their doctor, what are they taking, who do we need to call? If the answers aren't written down, they're guessing during the worst moments. This is the act that gets used most often, even when nothing tragic has happened.

Act Two

Digital Life

The accounts, subscriptions, and digital assets nobody knew you had — until they have to figure them out.

What you record
  • Online accounts: email, social media, cloud storage, photo libraries, financial portals
  • Password recovery: password manager location, two-factor backup codes, security questions
  • Subscriptions: streaming, news, software, donations — what's billing monthly, where
  • Digital documents: where scans, photos, and important files live (laptop, external drive, cloud)
  • Online assets: domain names, crypto wallets, monetized accounts, intellectual property
Why it matters

Most modern lives have 50–200 online accounts. Without the recovery codes and password manager hint, your family can lose access to your email forever — which means losing access to almost every other account, since password resets all flow through it. Recurring charges keep going for months. Photos and memories sit locked up. This act prevents all of that.

Act Three

Estate Planning

The legal script your executor will actually follow — every document, where it lives, and who signed it.

What you record
  • Will & testament: whether one exists, where the original is stored, who drafted it
  • Trusts: basic info, trustees, trust-owned financial accounts, related LLCs
  • Important documents: birth certificate, passport, social security card, marriage license, deeds, titles
  • Life insurance: policies, beneficiaries, contact info for each provider
  • Advance directive: healthcare proxy, living will, DNR, POLST, organ donation choices
  • Named beneficiaries: on accounts, on policies, with allocations
Why it matters

A will exists for the moments after — but only if someone can find it. The average estate takes 16+ months to settle, and most of that is hunting documents that weren't catalogued. This act removes the search. When your executor opens your program, every document is named, located, and ready to act on.

Final Act

End of Life

The wishes only you can speak to. Said now, when you can; honored later, exactly as you'd want.

What you record
  • Funeral planning: burial or cremation, service style, venue, music, readings, who to invite
  • Pre-arrangements: any funeral home contracts already in place
  • Messages to loved ones: letters, audio, video — saved for the people you'd want to hear from you
  • Asset distribution: who gets what among personal items the will doesn't cover
  • Charitable wishes: organizations to support in lieu of flowers
  • Final notes: anything else you'd want said, asked, or remembered
Why it matters

Most family disputes after a death aren't about money — they're about what mom would have wanted. When you've written it down, in your own words, the disagreements simply don't happen. Your family doesn't have to guess. They follow the program. The grief stays grief instead of grief plus a family argument.

Three moves, one performance.

Getting your affairs in order has never had a simpler running order.

1

Walk through the script

Move through each act at your own pace. Most people get the essentials down in under thirty minutes; you can return as often as you'd like to fill in the rest.

2

Update as the story changes

Lives evolve. People, addresses, accounts, and wishes shift over time. Sign in any time to revise — every edit saves automatically.

3

Hand off to your stage crew

Export your complete program as a printable file, or share read-only access with the loved ones who'll need it most.

A clean program for the people who'll need it most.

When the time comes, your family won't be cast into a search for paperwork. Invite them as a Supporting Cast Member and they get a clean, read-only version of your plan — every account, contact, document location, and final wish, presented like a program for the most important performance of all.

No editing. No risk of accidental changes. Just the answers, in order, when they're needed.

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Read-only program

Family sees a clean, printable view of everything you've recorded.

Invite by email

Add Supporting Cast Members by email — they sign in with their own account.

Print-ready

Every section formats for paper, in case the device isn't available.

Exportable backup

Save your entire plan as a single file you can store anywhere.

Your story stays in the wings.

Exit Stage Life runs entirely on your device. No cloud, no servers, no third parties holding your information. Your details never leave the building until you choose to share them. When you're ready to hand the program to a loved one, you can — but until then, you're the only one with backstage access.

Stored locally only

Everything you type lives in your browser's storage on this device. Nothing is sent to a server, ever.

No accounts, no sign-up

No email collection, no marketing emails, no tracking. The PIN you create stays on your device.

You control the export

Save a backup anywhere — USB drive, printed copy, your attorney's office. The keys are always yours.

Asked between performances.

A few of the questions visitors ask before they begin.

Where is my information stored?

All on your device, in your browser's local storage. Nothing leaves your computer unless you export it yourself. There is no server, no cloud, and no account behind the scenes.

Can my family see my plan now?

Only if you've invited them as a Supporting Cast Member by email. They sign in with their own account and see your plan as a clean, read-only program. The same credentials work whether they're maintaining their own plan or supporting yours.

Is this a will?

No. Exit Stage Life is a personal organizer — a comprehensive record of where things are and what you'd like — but it's not a legally binding will. You should still have a real will drawn up by an attorney. This tool helps your family find that will, along with everything else.

What if I lose the device or my drive crashes?

Use the Export Plan feature regularly to save a backup file. We recommend exporting after any major update and storing the file somewhere safe — a USB drive, a printed copy in a secure place, or with your attorney.

Can I update my plan later?

Yes — and you should. Lives change: people, addresses, accounts, wishes. Sign in any time to revise. Every edit saves automatically as you type.

Do I need a lawyer to use this?

No. Exit Stage Life is a personal organizer, not a legal service. For things like wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, you'll still want a qualified attorney. This tool helps you organize and document those things in one place — and gives your family the map to find them.

Take a bow with
everything in place.

Start writing your program today. Most people get the essentials down in under thirty minutes — and your loved ones get a lifetime of clarity in return.

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