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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

You should each have your own will.  It can be handwritten or typed or fill 
in the blank.  HOWEVER, you need to check with your state as to the 
requirements for each to make it legal.  Some states accept a handwritten 
(totally in your own handwriting) without witnesses, just have it notarized. 
However, fill in the blanks or typed usually require two witnesses and 
having it notarized is still a good idea.  You want an original and at least 
one copy.  For your witnesses, try to choose folks that are unrelated AND 
usually younger than you is better.  When I was doing paralegal leg work for 
a family law and probate attorney I saw quite a few wills end up in long 
drawn out court battles, usually over only pennies, because the witnesses 
couldn't be found or they had predeceased the writter of the will!

Include things such as directions about the donation, how you want your 
funeral or unfuneral to be done AND besides the will, you want to have a 
durable medical power of attorney.  With HIPPA these are more necessary than 
ever.  Most any hospital can give you the forms, no cost.  Again, multiple 
copies.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "SISU!" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> I've been thinking about my own mortality lately.  It's time to quit
> thinking about it and to get things handled.  First up:
> Wills....for poor folks like me, can't I just go to Office Depot and get
> one of those packages to write my own will?  Does Ron need to get a
> separate one, or can we share one?
> I plan to donate my heathen body to science(have the paperwork, just
> need to fill it out and send it in, etc.), but would still like to have
> a marker on my property somewhere.  I can't picture it in my mind as to
> what kind of marker I would want, and while I have given thought to
> epitaphs in the past, I can't seem to come up with something meaningful
> that isn't 'cutesy' or vain.  I'd actually like to find something
> completely natural and have it inscribed, just don't know if that is
> possible.
> I suppose that someone in the family will have some kind of memorial for
> me, so I am trying to pull together a list of ideas/music/people for
> that so that it's not too heavy and it happens the way I would like it
> happen.  This is really the hardest part so far.  It's kind of like
> planning a wedding, except you never know who is going to show up, when
> it will be, where it will be, etc.  It's an odd thing.  Really, I am
> starting off with a list of what I DON'T want, like, I don't want my
> picture displayed, I don't want a church service memorial, etc.
> Getting all of this stuff in writing in a permanent document that will
> hold up in court is the trick.
> Lastly, be it known here and now, that I do not want to be on life
> support of any kind, at any time, for any reason.  I put this in writing
> out to the world to let my wishes on that be known.  Maybe someone will
> archive this note and if I ever inadvertently end up like Terri Schiavo,
> that some of you will care enough to fight or protest or whatever to end
> my life.  I tell everyone this so there should be no question about it
> when and if the time ever comes.
> I'd be interested in hearing how some of you have gone about this chore,
> not specifically your plans, but how you have finalized them, if you have.
>
> Bev
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