I am compelled to write you this letter and to reiterate the importance of updating your personal history information when it comes to your benefits. YOU WILL DIE ONE DAY! Hopefully, you will live a long, healthy and prosperous life, but the reality is YOU WILL DIE ONE DAY. Immediately after your death there will be tears, accompanied by fear and perhaps confusion and disappointment. However, one of the most important things you can do before your death is to determine who will receive your inheritance, your life insurance, your deferred compensation, your annuity, and everything else you leave behind. You are entitled to have a Will drafted for you through your union’s attorneys. I have seen many dependents faced with the daunting task of trying to collect benefits that rightfully belong to them, but were unable to receive them simply because proper documentation was not executed in a timely fashion. These documents that sit on your desk, refrigerator, washer machine/dryer are meaningless unless you take the time and act responsibly. It is very simple, YOU WILL DIE ONE DAY. But your family does not have to die with you. You must take 10 minutes out of your busy schedule, while you’re at the barber shop, or the hair salon, at the ballgame, or in the locker room changing for your tour of duty, to fill out the proper paperwork so that when you die, you know that you have done the right thing for those loved ones you have left behind. My intention is not to alarm or upset you by writing this letter, but rather to stress the importance of making sure your paper work is up- to-date. The reality is you have not seen the large number of family members that I have seen over the past 13 years and explained to them that because Correction Officer “so and so” did not fill out the appropriate paperwork, you are hereby entitled to absolutely nothing. Therefore, I am asking you to please take 10 minutes of your time to fill out the proper paperwork. You have no idea how it feels to look in the face of a little baby or husband/wife and say “you are not the beneficiary.” May God continue to bless you and your family, Norman Seabrook President << page 1