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Interesting
Dec. 8th, 2005 10:33 amApparently, our culture is not satisfied with living wills and the like, but we must dwell on death a little more. Now, I'm not saying that dividing up your estate among your heirs while you're still alive is a bad thing, but don't wills usually take care of most of that?
I guess I'm lucky because I know that there's relatively little, object-wise, that I would want from my parents or grandparents if they were to pass on. My mom has things she wants that are of sentimental value and heirloom-wise are rich in family history, but those are things she knows about and wants, not me. I wouldn't say no to a piece of jewelry from great-grandparents (my mother, always on top of these things, reset pieces of great-grandma's jewelry into necklaces and a tie-tack for my sisters and I and my brother last Christmas), but there's nothing I'd have to have.
Except one thing. There's a necklace that my mother used to wear that I can recall clear as day, and, given my shoddy memory, that is saying something as she's not worn in in maybe a decade now. It's a gold necklace, circular with a middle that looked like lace, interwoven little strings of gold. It wasn't overly beautiful, nor probably worth that much, but it so reminds me of her, I would request it if this ever came up.
Otherwise, why fight over china or chairs? We honestly don't have man heirloom type things like that, and I'm sure most of the 'hold-on-to-this-because-it-has-family-history' would interest my older sister (she's very good about that stuff) or my next-to-youngest one (because she's a history buff). I guess I just don't get it.
I guess I'm lucky because I know that there's relatively little, object-wise, that I would want from my parents or grandparents if they were to pass on. My mom has things she wants that are of sentimental value and heirloom-wise are rich in family history, but those are things she knows about and wants, not me. I wouldn't say no to a piece of jewelry from great-grandparents (my mother, always on top of these things, reset pieces of great-grandma's jewelry into necklaces and a tie-tack for my sisters and I and my brother last Christmas), but there's nothing I'd have to have.
Except one thing. There's a necklace that my mother used to wear that I can recall clear as day, and, given my shoddy memory, that is saying something as she's not worn in in maybe a decade now. It's a gold necklace, circular with a middle that looked like lace, interwoven little strings of gold. It wasn't overly beautiful, nor probably worth that much, but it so reminds me of her, I would request it if this ever came up.
Otherwise, why fight over china or chairs? We honestly don't have man heirloom type things like that, and I'm sure most of the 'hold-on-to-this-because-it-has-family-history' would interest my older sister (she's very good about that stuff) or my next-to-youngest one (because she's a history buff). I guess I just don't get it.
