On Fri, 14 May 2004, Jay West wrote:
Fred wrote...
It is with great sadness that I have to announce
the sudden and very
untimely death of Sipke de Wal (the Xgistor) of Noordwijk, The
Netherlands.
Very sad. My thoughts are with him and his family.
Yes, I'm sorry to hear this.
It does make me think... what should happen to my
prized/cherished
collection if I die suddenly. On the one hand, I'd prefer it to go free to
listmembers who have helped me over the years, not the local smelter. On the
other hand, my wife has put up with the hobby for so long - and bit her lip
often when I spent "her" money on collection items. I would definitely want
some money for the collection or parts of it (my gorgeous dual bay 8E and
dual bay HP2000 would no doubt fetch "serious" money) to go to my wife. Just
to let her know some of it was actually worth something. Yes, you can all
take a copy of this email to my wife if I go suddenly as proof of my wishes
:) She would have NO clue how to go about dispersing the collection, who to
talk to, etc. I wouldn't mind an H8 or two going free to listmembers, but I
can't stand the thought of some non-listmember, just someone off the
street - offering her $5 for a pristine H8 and walking off with it cause she
wouldn't know any better.
Of course, not only the collection, but I'd have to arrange for someone to
take over ownership of this list....
Maybe the best route is for me to contact several list members and give them
my general wishes, and then let them take care of the entire disposition of
the collection. Just writing it up in a will isn't sufficient, I would want
someone I know knows what they are dealing with to be the one directing it.
Time for reflective thought methinks.
What I will do (and keep swearing I'll do before every plane flight) is
actually start a will and assign a specific executor for the computer
archive with someone whom I know and can trust to do the right thing,
taking numerous desires into consideration. It's a bit more complicated
in my case, not only due to size but also because of some specific ideas
of what I would want to happen to the archive.
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