The Legacy Project: What is It & How It Can Help
What is the Legacy Project? A legacy is a gift from one generation to the next. Although a legacy can be considered anything from a monetary gift to a special talent or even a keepsake handed down from one generation to the next, in this instance we would like to discuss a more complex and distinctive legacy—the legacy of a person’s history, thoughts, hopes, dreams and wishes and what those will mean to a future generation. When a person...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
The 5 Steps to Creating Your Legacy Project
The Legacy Project’s five parts marry your own personal history, your family’s heritage and lets your family know your beliefs and wants for end-of-life care. Many have found that The Legacy Project works to identify what is most important to them—and helps them create a personal sense of symbolic immortality. 1. Ethical Will. Creating an ethical will means writing down a personal written or dictated record of your family stories, philosophic thoughts, legacy, and goals. Ethical wills are a...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
Symbolic Immortality: Thoughts About the Future
We can all imagine and anticipate concerns about our death. Considering our own mortality necessarily brings with it feelings of uncertainty and anxiety. Death represents both the physical and mental annihilation of life. Most human hope is for the future immortality of our philosophy, our deeds and our soul. The term symbolic immortality as coined by Harvard psychiatrist Robert J. Lifton, MD, refers to what remains from our lives after death. These may be material, such as what we...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
Writing Your Ethical Will
An ethical will is another way for an individual to allow others into their personal thoughts, hopes and philosophies. An ethical will is not a legal document as compared to a living will, which is an important legal document. An Ethical Will is just one of many parts of a Legacy Project, where a person can bring in friends and family to share their life experience. Find out more about the Legacy Project. Sitting Down & Writing an Ethical...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
Creating a Family Tree
Some people find building a family tree gives them a sense of place within a historical context, others enjoy the idea of piecing together a puzzle, while others might use it to create a family medical history. No matter your reasoning for creating a family tree, you will find that personal computers and Internet-based resources have made genealogy searches so much more accessible to people. Building a family history is easier now that information such as marriage and birth...Read the rest of this article »Related Articles
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