Most people put off writing a will for years, and almost nobody says the real reason out loud: a law office is an intimidating place to talk about dying.

So we stopped asking families to come to us. Sarah has written most of her eight hundred plans (fictive) at kitchen tables in Orange and Chatham counties, and the difference is not just comfort. It is information.

At home, the paperwork is in the next room. The deed, the old policy, the account nobody remembered — they surface in twenty minutes instead of three follow-up emails. Spouses interrupt each other with details that matter. Adult children sit in, and the plan gets explained once, to everyone, instead of discovered later at a hard moment.

If getting to Churton Street is difficult, say so when you call. We will come to you, and the plan will probably be better for it.