Printable / Good Grief Guide

Postmortem Most Important

The printable one-page guide to what matters most in the first 48 hours after a death.

Download the printable one-page checklist and keep it somewhere visible. It focuses on the tasks that matter most in the first 48 hours after someone dies.

What this printable covers

  • The first calls to make.
  • Documents and information to gather.
  • Immediate home, dependent, and pet care tasks.
  • What can wait until later.

Download the PDF

What comes next

Once you’ve handled the first 48 hours, read our detailed first 30 days guide for Texas families or the vendors nobody tells you about in month one. For the longer road ahead, see our 9 post-death administration tasks.