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David Pereiras / Shutterstock "clean kill" is a Swedish phenomenon in the older person (sometimes with the help of the family) get their affairs in order, sometimes in order to make the transition to help SALON Here is a tip at this stage of life and sometimes just make life easier, regardless of their age. If you need help clean up the mess, check these tips . And do not let the title sounds macabre: He is to publish the subject of a book soon, called The Gentle Art death of Sweden, the cleaning , the author and artist Margareta Magnusson instructs readers how gently and put his affairs happy in order while you are still alive, then leave, rather than others do.

"Death cleanup rules are simple," says Jasmine Hobbs, an expert on cleaning the equipment of London cleaning . "It's about losing everything they like or do not use. And not afraid to speak. "One way is less scary to understand that the cleaning of death is not for older people reserved, despite its name. "Everyone do it at any age. The idea is to organize your life and smooth ".

At the heart of the death of cleanliness, it is minimalist, but the process can also be an opportunity to embrace the nostalgia, Lorne Caplan, founder said free house cleaning that offer housekeeping manner of death in Westchester, New York. "Doing this kind of work should be considered a walk through history. If it affects older people, it can get to as a way to valuable stories from his life on the way. "

Very often, however, is to start the process, the challenge, according to Caplan. Caplan noted that, be very upset to speak, unlike the Swedes and Europeans in general of Americans over death. "The first time that many Americans discuss dead when they bury a loved one," he said. Therefore, if your goal is, the process is to start with an elderly parent or a friend, start slowly. "It's starting to remember. Delete images "Caplan suggests. "Ask taken for the journey or the people in the pictures." Gradually, from there you can start working on the issues that show things and ask, "What? Are you still there? How do you feel about it? "Little by little, you can work your way suggesting making" Maybe it's time to discard it? "Or," Then one day, there is someone you want to have it? "

Although can be different Caplan subtlety of the most direct way Magnusson, Caplan argues, the essence of the message Magnusson be cleaned, inventoried and eliminates the personal effects of nearly a dozen homes this year. how to leave friends and family to know what a deceased is to do with all material assets have been built. They often contain elements which could have included a certain nostalgia for the person on the left side, but that is of no value to anyone as a charitable donation. "Contain tunnels, postcards, porcelain cups, plates, boxes, empty bottles of soda," Caplan cites as examples. "It would have been much better if these things with the object of a love story, nostalgia and carefully placed or distributed in other ways, rather than getting what had been going on meaningless garbage value after the end person is gone. "

If you have questions about an elderly loved one? Here's a crash - course on the care for the elderly .

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