No Loose Ends
The Smart & Slightly Morbid Guide to Estate Planning & End-of-Life Tasks
John Wiley & Sons, WileyMay 5, 2026Hardcover
- Winner, NYC Big Book Award, Death & Dying, 2026
- Gold Medal, Living Now Book Awards, Grieving/Death/Dying, 2026
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1394374801
ISBN-13
9781394374809
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Wiley
Pages
418
Publication date
May 5, 2026
Format
Hardcover
About this book
Most estate planning advice stops at the will. The will is maybe a fifth of it.
No Loose Ends covers the rest: wills and trusts, yes, but also caregiving logistics, funeral and cremation decisions, digital assets, the accounts nobody knew existed, and the long administrative tail that arrives in the weeks you are least able to deal with it.
Adam wrote it because he was an executor with a law degree and still could not find a single document that told him what actually had to happen. Funeral director Jess Wakefield provides professional commentary throughout, on the grounds that Adam has never embalmed anyone. The foreword is by the President of the National Funeral Directors Association.
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About the author
Adam Zuckerman
Adam Zuckerman is an attorney, entrepreneur, and the founder of Buried in Work, which makes practical education, tools, and products for estate planning, end-of-life preparation, estate organization, and estate administration. He also founded Heirloom & Tell, End of Life Careers, and the Buried in Work Charitable Foundation. His first book, No Loose Ends: The Smart & Slightly Morbid Guide to Estate Planning & End-of-Life Tasks (Wiley, 2026), won the 2026 NYC Big Book Award in Death & Dying and a Gold Medal at the 2026 Living Now Book Awards. He wrote it after serving as an executor with a law degree and still not finding a single document that said what actually had to happen. Before Buried in Work he was Vice President of Business Development at Last Energy, Director of Ventures and Innovation at Discovery, and General Counsel at JESS3. He holds a BA, a JD, and an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis, is a Zhi-Xing China Eisenhower Fellow, and created AuthorChecklist.com after learning how much of the publishing system first-time authors are expected to understand on their own.