Has anyone written a will? Whether it’s a formal legal document or just a scrap of paper listing who gets what?
And 2nd question, what if you don’t have anyone to give your stuff to, or more to the point, don’t know anyone who deserves it?
My answer to the 1st question is no, and that’s largely because of question 2, got no one to give it to. So I haven’t bothered.
But at the same time, even though I’m not worth shit alive, I know I’m worth a stack dead. That is, if anyone was smart enough to connect the dots and realize all my holdings and what they’re worth, but that’s another the problem. I can’t just donate everything to some charity (mainly because all major charities are fucking scams but also) because they wouldn’t know a rare 6-figure French painting from a turd and they’d just auction everything off for a pittance.
So it’s like a true comprehensive will would also have to be a detailed inventory on all your assets and who tf has time for that when you’re preparing to kill yourself?
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I sometimes imagine I would pick a random roadside living poor person and give him all my wealth (converted to gold).
That would be epic.
If you use an attorney they would keep the will on file in the state in which you reside.
The art can be donated to a museum. Or you can offer it on loan for safekeeping until you want it back. I am sure they have legal documents regarding such items if they are not collected back by the owner of the piece.
Or you could sell the painting and try to live a little.
Scribbles on a page only work in movies.
Our things are just things. In the end, they never truly belong to us, even though we labor to buy them and care for them. When all is said and done they will be taken by someone else or abandoned, waiting for the end of all things.
They only matter because they matter to you. And if you value them, you probably still have some affection for living, which is a good thing.
The fatal irony is that an attorney costs money which I don’t have. That’s what I meant when I said I’m not worth shit alive, but I’m worth a stack dead.
The problem with non-liquid assets, or “unrealized capital gains” which I have a ton of, is that unless you liquidate them, you can still be a pauper.
Selling them is not an option; they’re worth too much to me, whereas money is meaningless (beyond what’s necessary to keep a roof over my head). Since I’m about to die soon anyway, why would I relinquish the only things that make me feel good for something as fleeting as money?
So til my last breath I’m going to preserve these things, and that was always the plan. Where the plan fell apart was in being unable to find anyone worthy of taking over. Someone like me who wouldn’t just auction this stuff off and take the money.
I know everything I said is impractical and irrational, but welcome to my head.
what things do you have? all of them are artwork? and how did you come about to obtaining these “priceless works of art?”
heh- so that’s what’s keeping you alive? the fact that you have no one “worthy” to give these artworks to? i don’t think you can rest if you think these artworks are just gonna get tossed or auctioned or dumped after you die.
i bet if you found someone or some organization worthy, you’d probably go ahead with sui- plans.