I'm
sorry for your loss as well.
Thank you.
Me too. I have maybe a vague idea what it's like, from losing my own
parents, which was, to put it mildly, Not Fun At All.
HTnak you. I most certianly is not fun... Sorting out his estate, paying
the necessary taxes (which will involve me selling the house and
moving...) is not fun. Even less fun is being on my own all the time.
The last was made slightly easier by the fact that my fatehr was in
hospital a lot in the least year so I got used to doing everything
myself. Even so, I visitied him every day and had many interesting
coverestaions which I certainly miss.
My view is that in many cases the museum policy
on acquisitions is
fundalmentally broken in that they can't give away or sell stuff
they've been given to just anybody,.
I agree that this is seriously broken. But, as for the pragmatic
matter of what to put in your will, maybe you could, rather than
willing your collection to a museum, specify that the museum is to get
whatever subset they want, with the rest to be disposed of otherwise?
(Of course, this does mean choosing a value of "otherwise". I suggest
it just as a workaround for such broken museum policies.)
Yes. That essentailly is what I have been asking for.
My problems are absically :
I have some quite rare machines and other artefacts, along with some very
common ones. I also have things which although wuite common are certainly
useful (tools, test gear, etc).
For obvious reasons I want as much of it as possible to be presereed and
enjoyed after I am gone.
Now, if I leavee it to a person (which is, and will remain, my first
choice), there is the possibilty that daid person wil ldie before me. In
which case the will is worthless.
So what I am looking for is an organisation which will be arorund when I
die (which might well be in 40 or more years time) and which will take
what it wants from my stuff and pass the rest on to other people or
organisations.
But such an organisation does nto seem to exist. Oh well, I tried.
-tony
