Preserve Your Legacy With These
Ethical Will Tips

Your Ethical Will offers you a thorough introduction to the ethical will and guides you through the history of ethical wills as well as the ethical will writing process. In addition to the advice in the book, here are some ethical will tips you might find helpful in creating a lasting, effective personal legacy document.

Make multiple copies of your ethical will. Give each copy to a different person, and make provisions to create an additional copy for every one that gets damaged, lost, or destroyed. Make a backup copy online. No matter what your intended audience, putting your ethical will online can only help preserve your spiritual legacy. If you intend for the ethical will to remain private, put it on a password-protected site that only your loved ones can access. If you wish to make your personal legacy statement public, render it available to anyone in the world via the Internet!

Here are a few more ethical will tips. When you write an ethical will, use quality paper and ink. Acid-free paper will not become yellow or brittle over time, and good ink takes a lot longer to fade than the standard variety. These materials cost a bit more than the typical kinds, but they're a wonderful investment if the result is the perpetuation of your ethical values for an additional five decades or more.

Pick an appropriate time to share your ethical will. Find an occasion when you and your loved ones can get together without any inconvenience or hostility. Announce your intention to discuss an important matter with them beforehand, so that you have everyone's fullest attention and nobody feels the need to attend to another activity or commitment.

Of all the ethical will tips here, remember this one: the more considerate you are to their needs and circumstances, the more respect they will have for you as an ethical example and a cherished friend or family member. Presenting your ethical will in a tasteful and appropriate manner can go a long way toward building ethical trust between you and your loved ones.

An ethical will need not be finished and untouchable just because you've completed the first version of it. Look back on it periodically and see if you want to update it to reflect new experiences, realizations, and insights into ethical issues. You might even want to compose a series of ethical wills in the form of ethical letters so that you can write down your important thoughts soon after they occur to you.

Use these ethical will tips to aid you in creating, preserving, and revising your personal legacy declaration!