Legal Stuff.....

[judy]

I did a will years ago so that Jessie wouldn't have to pay taxes, etc. like you said, Janet.

I don't even know where that will is, and things have just become more complicated these days. I have begun to gather some papers and I'm planning to sit down with Jessie and Steve to work out the details. Of course, she gets everything. As much as I don't like to say it, however, she does have MS, and I do have to work out the order of beneficiaries between Steve and the three children. There's also a living will that needs to be done, funeral stuff, who will have control should I not be able to make decisions, and so on.

I don't want a funeral, and I don't want to be buried. I also don't want to be cremated. I want to donate my organs. Jessie does not like any of this. She wants to have a place to go to visit me. I told her to frame one of my tattoos and hang it on the wall so she could visit it. Or...to pick a body part and put it in a container on her mantle. She does not have my sense of humor!

The truth is, I will be dead and she will be left to grieve, so she probably will get what she wants. I will then have to prepay my funeral, and won't be able to make it fun because she's just not like me in that sense.

There are people who choose to be buried in the ground without a casket. I think it's illegal, but it is still done. I don't really want that, but it is interesting that there are so many choices.