In addition, you will want to:

• Find someone to help answer sympathetic phone calls, cards and letters,
  as well as greet friends and relatives when they call.
• Decide appropriate memorial to which gifts may be made (church, charity, etc.)
• Prepare list of distant persons to be notified by letter or printed notice and decide which to send.
• Locate the will and notify lawyer and executor
• Check carefully all life and casualty insurance and death benefits including National Insurance, credit union, fraternal and military.
• Access the National Insurance Funeral Grant of Bds$1,400 and Survivor's Benefits
• Check promptly on all debts and installment payments, including credit cards. Some carry insurance clauses that cancel balances upon death.
• Notify utilities and landlord and tell post office where to send mail
  (if deceased was living alone).