End-of-life decisions are best made long before end-of-life becomes a reality. Offering a streamlined way to accomplish this goal, THE FINAL GIFT provides for bringing together critical personal documents, vital financial information, and death and dying preferences in a contingency organizer file. Created by a single or married man or woman [the Recorder] as testimony of love and dedication to family and heirs, the file is the "final gift" because it eliminates uncertainty and confusion in the post-death period. Furnished with THE FINAL GIFT, those grieving have access to the vital information needed to close the estate in an expeditious manner and are better able to get on with their lives.