The letter
only you can write.
A free workbook that walks you through writing a Legacy Letter in four simple steps, so the people you love can hear your voice long after you're gone.
Wills deal with what you owned. A Legacy Letter deals with everything else: what you believed, what you learned the hard way, the stories you'd want retold, and the things you'd want said one more time. It takes an afternoon to write and it will be read for decades. Most people have never heard of one, and everyone who receives one keeps it forever.
Legacy Letter Rite of Passage Funerals
A framework, some prompts,
and room to write
Also known as a spiritual will or ethical will. There's no legal weight to it and no right way to write it. The workbook simply gives you the shape, the prompts and the blank pages.
A note from Yasemin
Why these letters matter, and what she has watched them do for the families left behind.
What a Legacy Letter is
The difference between a will, an advance care plan and a letter, in plain terms.
Step one: your love
Naming the people who shaped you, and saying the things that often go unsaid.
Step two: your wisdom
The lessons you'd want passed on, and the beliefs you've come to hold.
Step three: your stories
The moments worth retelling, from the ordinary to the ones nobody knows.
Step four: your blessing
How to close: forgiveness, permission, hope, and what you wish for them next.
Prompts if you're stuck
Short questions to get the first sentence out of the way.
Blank letter pages
Ruled pages to write the letter itself, or a draft before you write it by hand.
Where to keep it
Who should hold it, and how to make sure it's found when it's needed.
People imagine a Legacy Letter has to be profound. It doesn't. The lines families read over and over are usually the plainest ones: I was proud of you, this is what I learned, here is what I hope for you.