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No Loose Ends
The Smart & Slightly Morbid Guide to Estate Planning & End-of-Life Tasks
Everything that has to happen when someone dies, and everything you can do in advance to make it survivable.
ISBN-10
1394374801
ISBN-13
9781394374809
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Wiley
Pages
418
Publication date
May 5, 2026
Format
Hardcover
About the 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.
Product details
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Wiley
- Publication date
- May 5, 2026
- Print length
- 418 pages
- ISBN
- ISBN-13: 9781394374809ISBN-10: 1394374801
Short bio
Adam Zuckerman is an attorney, entrepreneur, and the founder of Buried in Work. His first book, No Loose Ends (Wiley, 2026), won the 2026 NYC Big Book Award in Death & Dying and a Gold Medal at the 2026 Living Now Book Awards. He lives in the Washington, DC area.
Key facts
- Published by John Wiley & Sons on May 5, 2026
- 418 pages
- Hardcover ISBN 9781394374809
- LCCN 2026937973
- OCLC number 1586821647
- Winner, NYC Big Book Award, Death & Dying, 2026
- Gold Medal, Living Now Book Awards, Grieving/Death/Dying, 2026
- ISBN 9781394374809, LCCN 2026937973, OCLC 1586821647
- Foreword by the President of the National Funeral Directors Association
- Professional commentary throughout by funeral director Jess Wakefield
- In over 100 library systems
- Winner, 2026 NYC Big Book Award, Death & Dying
- Gold Medal, 2026 Living Now Book Awards, Grieving/Death/Dying
Talking points
- The will is maybe a fifth of estate planning; the rest is logistics nobody explains.
- What an executor actually has to do in the first two weeks, and why most families are unprepared for it.
- Digital assets and the accounts nobody knew existed.
- Funeral and cremation decisions, explained by someone who has made them and a funeral director who handles them daily.
- How to organize your own affairs so your family is not doing detective work while grieving.
Suggested interview questions
- You are a lawyer. Why did you still need to write this book?
- What is the first thing an executor should do, and what do most people do instead?
- Why is the will only a fifth of the job?
- What do people get wrong about digital assets after a death?
- Why bring a funeral director into a book about estate planning?
- What is the one document every family should have that almost none do?
- What surprised you most about publishing a first book?
Awards and distinctions
- Winner, NYC Big Book Award, Death & Dying, 2026
- Gold Medal, Living Now Book Awards, Grieving/Death/Dying, 2026
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