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Article: The Use of Ethical Wills Re-Emerging
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- March 14, 2005
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LISA CORNWELL, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
03-14-2005
Dateline: CINCINNATI
Judy Neal works on a will in her Cincinnati home Friday, Feb. 25, 2005. In the forground are wills that she has worked on in the past and uses them a examples for new wills. (AP Photo/Tom Uhlman)
Judy Neal hopes she instilled some of her values in her son. But just in case, she wrote it down.
"Try to see both sides of a story," she wrote in her ethical will. "Look beyond the surface and the obvious. It took me a while to learn this."
The use of ethical wills _ a centuries-old practice of passing along beliefs, values and personal experiences to loved ones _ has begun to re-emerge as catastrophic events ...