& # 39; Clean Death: & # 39; The new trend of the Declutter, not as morbid as it sounds

When Margaret Magnusson emptied his parents' apartment after his mother's death, he found little towing messages on her mother's clothes and other things.

The notes contained handwritten instructions about what should happen to these possessions. Some had to be donated to charities or to a specific museum. Some books had to be returned to their original owners.

His mother had embraced the Swedish practice of "döstädning" or "purge of death", a topic that Magnusson has written a book entitled "The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleansing: Freeing Me and His Family a Life of Disorder

Despite his morbid name, désencombrante Tod Reinigung is a practice of the kind, the reuse or many of their belongings before his death dispose of that family members and friends are sure to be unpleasant task.

"In general, people have too many things in their homes," says Magnusson on a video created by the publisher of his book. "One day, when you're gone, your family has to deal with all this, and do not think it's right."

She maintains a "token box" full of pictures and letters that are important to her and that family members can only throw if he dies without having to sort content.

Colette Robicheau, a professional and president of the organization All Organizers, says that purifying the death "is a gift for your loved ones."

"There are many other things to do right now," Robicheau told CTV Atlantic. "I do not know how many times I've been with customers and broke and talked to mourn" Why not deal with that?

The property of people who often die ends up in real estate sales and auction houses, even if they have not expressly declared their desire to navigate.

Mike McKenna, managing director of Mariner Auctions & Liquidations Ltd., Nova Scotia, told CTV Atlantic that the auction houses are thousands of pieces each week, from tables and chairs to old bar signs.

"The artworks are definitely something that's in demand," McKenna said. Furniture is also popular because people are always looking for interesting pieces and good offers.

Robicheau advises older clients to find all your important documents (wills, living wills and insurance documents) and to keep them accessible to family emergencies easily.

"Many people think that the will should be locked in a box in the bank," he said. "But the truth is that it should be consulted immediately."

With a summary by Emily Baron-Cadloff from CTV Atlantic

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