Prepare an Ethical Will to
Share Your Ethical Values

What ethical values have guided your life? Which ethical issues do you care deeply about? How have your morality, culture, traditions, religion, or habits inspired and influenced you? What benefits can other people gain from understanding and adopting your moral values? All of these questions can be answered when you prepare an ethical will. Your Ethical Will gives you a thorough introduction to ethical will writing as well as the history of ethical wills and ample examples of ethical wills from the past and present.

In a time when so little is certain and so many things change so frequently, how can you ensure that your ethical values live on and continue to make a positive difference in people's lives? Creating an ethical will enables you to transfer your values onto a medium that will last for decades and even centuries. Writing memoirs, ethical letters, an ethical essay, or even short, simple wills are all excellent ways to communicate your spiritual legacy and the ideas that matter most to you.

Alternatively, you can choose to take advantage of modern technology and create a video ethical will, an audio recording, or a collection of artworks and photographs. Those, too, can preserve your legacy and communicate your ethical values. Remember to make multiple copies of your ethical will, no matter what format you choose. That way, if anything happens to one of the copies, the others can continue to guide your loved ones and anyone else whom you want to help.

Here are some spiritual ethical will tips to ensure that your ethical values are preserved. If you've selected creating a written personal legacy document, get some acid-free paper and quality ink to ensure that the ethical will does not become increasingly less readable over time. Remember that this is your spiritual legacy and thus deserves a considerable investment that will enable it to truly endure.

Furthermore, when conveying your ethical values, try to suggest, illustrate, and persuade, rather than order others or impose your ideas on them. Your ethical will can be far more effective if phrased gently rather than harshly, lovingly rather than with recrimination. The language you select will determine much of the impact you will have in the coming decades and centuries!

Your ethical values can become a permanent, cherished, and active part of your loved ones' lives. They can continue to influence the future and to bring about changes you would like to see in your community and in the world. Prepare an ethical will, and see just how far your moral values can go!