Consider benefiting future WILL viewers and listeners through your will, a revocable living trust, or a gift such as a charitable remainder trust or charitable remainder unitrust that provides both for a gift to WILL and income for you. Many of these planned giving techniques provide a way to include a tribute to a family member or other loved one. Because of remarkable growth in the value of stocks and other investments over the past several years, you may own investments whose value has increased dramatically. Tax laws currently allow investors to make gifts of stock or other appreciated property and bypass capital gains tax that would be due on a sale. You are allowed to use your profits to help reduce federal and, perhaps, state income taxes.
Some friendships are strong enough to last beyond a lifetime.
What we pass on to future generations is more than the shape of a nose, the ability to sing in tune or a tendency to take life's bumps in stride. Our grandchildren cheer for the Cubs or Cardinals based on our own loyalty. The World War II stories we tell the youngster next door become part of his school history project. We all want to leave something of ourselves on this earth. And we do so in more ways than we can imagine, often without knowing how we've influenced the life of another person.