Make Your Ethical Will Available Online

If you've read Your Ethical Will, you have all the tools necessary for effective ethical will writing. But once you've finished creating an ethical will, what can you do to ensure that it will be there for your loved ones and for future generations? How can you prevent your ethical will from being lost or destroyed? How can you ensure that your spiritual legacy is not irreparably lost? Consider putting your ethical will online.

No matter what the intended audience of an ethical will, it can benefit from being put on the Internet. If you only want to share your ethical will with a close group of friends and family, consider putting your ethical will online onto a password-protected site; only your loved ones will know the password and have access to the ethical will. But if your personal legacy document is available on the Internet, then a replacement will always be ready for a physical copy that is damaged, destroyed, or lost.

If the intent of your ethical will is to share your ethical values and analysis of important ethical issues with the public at large, then putting your ethical will online will go a long way toward enabling your words and ethical example to reach the people whose lives you want to affect. When your ethical essay, ethical letters, or video ethical will can be accessed via the Internet, people all over the world have a chance of discovering and benefiting from your wisdom.

The Internet will always be there; it will not decay or fade with time. While even the best-quality paper might deteriorate in the course of a century, putting your spiritual ethical will online will guarantee that fresh copies will be available far into the future. Just as you hope for your spiritual legacy to live forever, so will the online version of your ethical will.

It's easy to put an ethical will online, even for those with little or no Internet experience. Numerous services offer free websites with limited storage. If your ethical will occupies less than 3 megabytes of space, consider signing up for a free website from Yahoo! Geocities. You will get a site for life, with no fees or obligations involved. Inexpensive domain names can also be purchased for reasonable yearly fees from companies such as Lunarpages. If you're willing to invest in high-quality ink, paper, and recording devices to perpetuate your legacy and moral values, why not contribute a modest sum toward putting your ethical will online?