Become an Ethical Example in Your
Community: Promote Ethical Wills

So you've read Your Ethical Will and composed an ethical will of your own. Are you wondering what to do next, after you've seen the powerful improvements this personal legacy document can make in your own life? Consider this: you can become an ethical example to a number of your friends and neighbors by inspiring and motivating each of them to create an ethical will.

There are many ways to spread awareness about this powerful personal legacy statement. One of the easiest and least intrusive is to simply mention the ethical will in conversation. When talking to a close friend, reveal how ethical will writing helped you reach out to your family, communicate your deepest beliefs, and resolve internal and external conflicts. That alone might impress your friend to embark on his or her own journey of discovering this powerful way to preserve a spiritual legacy.

You can become an ethical example for less well-known acquaintances by discussing the ethical will more abstractly, if you're not comfortable with giving away too many details of your personal life to people you don't know as well. Talk about the tradition of Jewish ethical wills and how you admire this time-tested way of communicating ethical values. Mention that ethical wills are becoming increasingly popular throughout the world with numerous cultures.

Once interest in the subject builds up, consider holding workshops on What is an Ethical Will?, discuss the various aspects of writing their spiritual legacy into words. You will be providing a valuable service for which immense numbers of people will grateful. In the workshops, use ethical will examples from history and from modern times. Mention the colossal alleviation of suffering that a hospice patient experiences when he or she works to prepare an ethical will. The ethical example of these patients will inspire and encourage your students to make ethical wills of their own.

If the e-Book Your Ethical Will helped you better understand yourself and communicate with others, recommend a purchase of this book to your friends and neighbors! The time might be right for each of them to go on spiritual journeys of their own with the guidance of this text. Your ethical example can stimulate extensive fruitful discussions of ethical issues, unlike anything your community has ever seen!

Spread the word in your community. Go out there and reveal the power of a spiritual ethical will! You will be rewarded many times over as a result.