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This page explains how it works. The tool itself is inside your SeniorThrive account.
Wishes & Legacy is the name for two quiet pages where you write down what you would want the people you love to know, in your own words, kept private until you choose to share it.
Where to find it
You will not see "Wishes & Legacy" written on a card anywhere. It is the idea behind two cards, not a page of its own.
Open Family & Friends and scroll to Planning ahead, a section that stays closed until you open it. Inside are the two cards, side by side: Letters to Loved Ones, and My Final Wishes. Tap whichever one you want and you go straight to it.
If you follow an older link or bookmark, you may land on a page that offers the same two doors as a choice instead. Both routes end up in the same place.
Two doors, and they are not the same job
They ask completely different things of you, and it is worth understanding the difference before you pick one.
Letters to Loved Ones is the warm one. Personal letters and messages for the people you love, written or recorded in your own voice, to read or listen to when the time comes.
My Final Wishes is the practical one. How you would like things handled, and where to find what matters, so no one has to guess.
Most people find one of these much easier than the other, and which one is easier is not the same for everybody. Some can write a letter to a grandchild and cannot face the funeral page. Others would rather sort out the paperwork than say something tender out loud.
Start with whichever you can face today. Neither is a prerequisite for the other.
Nobody sees any of it yet
This is the part that makes the rest possible.
Everything here is private until you decide otherwise. Nothing is shared with your Circle because you wrote it, nobody is notified that you have been on this page, and no family member gets a hint that you started a letter and stopped halfway.
You can write badly, change your mind, leave something half-finished for a year, and delete the lot. That is the only way honest writing gets done.
You do not have to do it in one sitting
You almost certainly should not.
This is a page to come back to. Ten minutes on the practical section is worth more than a whole afternoon you dreaded and then avoided. Anything you write is saved and waiting.
What this gives the people you love
Certainty, at a time when it is hard to come by.
Every question you answer here is one your family does not have to wonder about. Instead of guessing what you would have wanted, they get to hear it from you, in your own words, and simply follow what you have said.
That is the real gift. Not the document itself, but the peace of knowing they got it right, because you told them.