Your Will Be Done

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Utopia: where a simple budget-priced will produces its desired results. To sleep, perchance to dream? I suppose that once you are dead, what does it matter how your hard earned is split up? It’s only money, after all. Rightly or wrongly, it matters to most people. And it probably matters to you. The litmus test…

An Introduction to Wills

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First, a definition: a will is a document by which the will-maker directs the manner in which his or her property shall be dealt with upon and after his or her death. There are a number of formalities that are required in order for a document to be a valid will— it must be in…

Inter Vivos Organ Donation

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Last month I took the seasonal opportunity to write about the gift of life, and in particular, the gift of life arising from death where on the death of a person, his or her organs are, in the absence of a direction from that person to the contrary, donated to save or improve the lives…

How to Give the Greatest Gift There Is

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The number of actual organ donors per million population in Australia is scandalously low—only ten donors. Last year there were only 198 organ donors in the entire country, the lowest level since 2003, and substantially less than the 1989 figure of 231.There are currently more than 2,000 people, many of them children, on transplant waiting…