Why the Filing Happens After the Crisis
Most families do not organise their parents' documents out of negligence. They do it out of an unspoken agreement not to treat ageing as imminent. The conversation about where the will is kept feels like rehearsing a loss. So the folder never gets made, and the first time anyone looks for a health card or a property deed, someone is already in a hospital corridor. Chanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that preparation is the only form of security that does not depend on luck. The documents below are not paperwork. They are the decisions your parents already made, written down so that a crisis does not unmake them.
