Death Wishes

[jrising]

It's best to write up one's final wishes (living will (especially), legal will, funeral service details (if you want)) before actually dying. And it was one of my 101/1001 goals, so here's a pass at them: Death Wishes.

I'm not worrying about making a proper legal document, at least until I have more valuable stuff. Am I missing anything important? Have you taken a different approach to doing this?

Comments

[jrising.livejournal.com]

That's an incredible offer! I don't know how I feel about using you for your professional skills because we're friends, though. I found out that there are sites that have fill-in-the-blank legal forms, including wills specific to each state (and instructions on printing and signing them correctly and all). Do you know if those are solid, or would you suggest something different? If I use one of them, can I get you to look it over when I'm done with any changes I made?

[truered.livejournal.com]

Forms online are ok, and will probably work at least for what you need. But you should definitely let me look it over.
It's really no trouble... Trusts and Estates is actually the thing I'm most interested in and for people who are unmarried with no kids it's easy.

[truered.livejournal.com]

Just to clarify, when I say the online forms are "ok" I don't mean that as a good thing. They're better than nothing, and can be useful as a starting point, but I don't trust them.