When my XH and I were in couples therapy, my T asked us each to do this. We were to visualize our death and our spouse's death (separately) and what would ensue--how would people react, who would be upset, who would be able to comfort, etc. I think he did this to try to show us that if we want our death to be a certain way, then we have to build now for that legacy. If we see in our death the consequences of how our life is now, and we don't like it, then we can do things now to change so that in our death, everything and everyone left behind will be as we would like it to be. I think it's quite a powerful exercise, and very positive. It can motivate you to change now, and give a far reaching goal, and help define today's actions in terms of the "legacy" you want to leave behind.

Kiya, I agree with treehouse--if this exercise is too triggering, you don't have to do it. Same goes for anything in therapy.