Seeing that today is Memorial Day and that Seek Geo has already brought the subject up (awhile back) I think it fitting to discuss a sensitive issue. 'Sensitive to many people, that is.
Geo already has a Last Will and Testament. How unusual for a person so young, but a very good idea. I know many people MY age who have not done this yet. Scary!
I want to share with you my own parents' wishes. My dad just passed away a year ago St. Patricks Day. (Smile, yes we are Irish!). Mom died two years before that. Mom was 94, Dad 93.
They had a large farm on a knoll with a perfect view of Mt. St. Helens. My folks preferred to be cremated and returned to the earth. My mother's ashes were scattered around her rose garden. 'My father's out by the barn and his beloved John Deere equipment shed. Only we children (3 of us) were in attendance. Yes, there was a large memorial service for both of them together at The Elks Club where my dad and my brother were both past Exhaulted Rulers, but the scattering of the ashes with just us three children is what we will always remember.
The farm is all subdivided now, but we like to believe that our parents' spirit still lives on the land.
I wonder how many deaf people realize how important it is to have a will and to leave instructions as to what you want done after you have passed on. Do not leave it to your children to decided.
Respectfully, Lantana
Memorial Day, 2007
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We had made our Last Will & Testament after we moved to Texas. We are sitting back and relax. My parents had theirs done many years ago.
ReplyDeleteI made my Will out about a year ago. Unfortunately I have since had a relationship change and now need to change it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the reminder.
Dennis
Dennis, perhaps you should use the "beneficiary" line blank ?? You can fill in as needed. Heh, heh.
ReplyDeleteI have found over the years that my tastes change, not with partners, but by acquiring better common sense. The Will I made out 15 years ago does not meet my needs NOW. 'Same partner, different attitude!
~~L~~
Yeah, my mother left us without making a living will, but I remembered what she said one day a long time ago, that she wanted to be cremeated and spread out on the sea where she loved going fishing at. When I got the news my mother died, I asked dad right away what he was going to do about funeral and he didn't know. Then I told him what I remembered, and my sister concurred. My father is going to make his living will soon, but I don't know what it will consist of. I don't even have one myself, mostly because I don't really have anything to give to anyone. *grin* I am probably one of these least maternalistic person you might know, but love to spend money on travelling. Anyway, good article!
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