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Legacy Questions: Interviewing Loved Ones Before It Is Too Late

The interview approach treats the dying or aging loved one as the authority on their own life, creating a formal space for storytelling that everyday conversation rarely permits. These interviews become documents you can return to, listen to, and share—preserving their voice and perspective in their own words.

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Why It Matters

Legacy questions are structured prompts designed to draw out the life stories, values, memories, and wisdom of a person before death or cognitive decline makes those stories inaccessible, creating a permanent record that survivors can return to across generations.

AI tools can generate personalized legacy question sets based on a loved one's background and personality, help structure recorded or written responses into cohesive narratives, and turn raw conversations into organized memory archives that preserve voice, meaning, and identity long after the person is gone.

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