Judging from its ongoing and universal power, 'who gets what' must be one of the basic primal forces of the human psyche. So we spend time thinking of the disposition of our things. Writing Living Wills we try to anticipate, and prepare for, the painful practical questions that come towards the end of life. But there is more to the challenge of mortality than the giving away of goods. And there is more to challenge of facing death than what happens to our bodies.
Religious traditions have another gift to give as well.
It is a spiritual inheritance, not a physical one. It is the wisdom tradition, stories of 'how to be', ways to pass on the lessons learned in life. In some cultures the task still falls on the elderly to teach the young the way of the world. Other traditions are passed on from the circle of wise women to the daughters of the village. The collected wisdom is secure.