# Y'all Got Your Wills Made Out?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-got-your-wills-made-out/67958>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 7, 2001, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-got-your-wills-made-out/67958 "2001-06-07T18:49:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-got-your-wills-made-out/67958/21 "2001-06-08T13:20:03Z")

</div>

Knead—Aw, that’s alright; Adam knows I pride myself on being morbid (though not moribund; not quite yet, I hope!).

Scarlett—I have an organ donor’s card (“Take what you want, but use what you take!”). Oh, and I also have a note to pull the plug if I so much as take a too-long nap. No Sunny von Bulow, I.

Cap’n—My plans will only cost a couple of hundred bucks: prompt cremation and scattering in a pond near where I grew up.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![ENugent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/4af34b/32.png) [@ENugent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ENugent)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-got-your-wills-made-out/67958/22 "2001-06-08T13:36:27Z")

</div>

> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Slithy Tove \*  
> I was told (admittedly by someone other than a lawyer)that a hand-written will is acceptable.

This varies by state. You may want to check your local laws.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Yankee\_Blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/7ea924/32.png) [@Yankee\_Blue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yankee_Blue)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2001, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-got-your-wills-made-out/67958/23 "2001-06-08T13:45:16Z")

</div>

The minute I had a kid I made a will. I don’t care what happens to the material possesions but the raising of my kid I want to have a say in. I made damn sure I named a guardian that I like and trust rather than leave such an important matter to the capricious and idiotic state should Mr Blue and I snuff it while he’s a minor.

as for final disposal, Mr Blue has expressed a preference for being left out in a hefty bag, but I think knowing our sanitation men, they’d just leave it as too heavy for one bag.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yall-got-your-wills-made-out/67958.md?page=1)