An illustration of how the Empathy app works to manage accounts (Courtesy)
When people lose a loved one, there are a plethora of ceremonies and rituals devoted to offering spiritual solace for the devastating loss.
There is, however, no roadmap to help navigate the paperwork and bureaucracy that come with a death. In the midst of deepest sorrow, the bereaved must organize a funeral and handle a myriad of bureaucratic and financial tasks.
That process of arranging a funeral, validating a will, closing bank accounts, dealing with an estate, claiming benefits, etc., can take families in the United States over 500 hours on average — “a second job,” said entrepreneur Ron Gura, co-founder and CEO of the Israeli startup Empathy, which is seeking to be a Waze-like “GPS for loss.”