The word will is a little heavy for most people, and the topic related to the will is an unlucky topic in the eyes of many people; many people think that making a will should be something that needs to be considered in their later years, and some people have never thought about this issue.
However, now, many post-00s who have not yet stepped into society have begun to write their wills, and they seem to be not shy about "death".
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According to the recently released 2023 White Paper on the China Wills Database, the number of young and middle-aged people making wills has increased by 24 times in the past ten years, among which the number of post-90s and post-00s wills has shown a clear upward trend.
What is surprising is that the oldest post-00s generation is only 24 years old, far from the traditional concept of the age at which a will should be made.
In the traditional cultural concept, the will is generally linked to the "checkmate", only the elderly or seriously ill, and involving the division and disposal of private property, will think of making a will, therefore, when the "three nos" 00 who have no car, no house and no deposit start to make a will, it will only make most people feel that they are playing and putting on a show.
However, this group of young people did not think so.
As a generation that values individuality and self-expression, they no longer associate wills with "life charms", but instead see it as a rational reflection on themselves, their relatives and friends, their lives and their future.
Especially after seeing and experiencing too many uncertain factors such as natural disasters and man-made disasters, more and more young people realize that life is difficult to control, and no one knows which will come first tomorrow or accidents.
At the beginning of his life, he had already thought about "what happened after him", which is not a good thing for the post-00s.
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"Don't cry while recording, it's fun to make a will. This is a sentence written on the electronic screen of the Chinese will database, the will means death, how can death make people happy?
Due to the lack of death education experience from childhood to adulthood, most people have always avoided talking about "death", but with the popularization and development of the Internet, various views on death are also well known to the public, and this generation of young people seems to have begun to take the initiative to grasp the true meaning of death without a teacher.
Shi Tiesheng once wrote in "Me and the Temple of Earth", "Death is a festival that will inevitably come. "Death is a part of the inevitable arrival of life, and it will happen to all of us sooner or later, but death is also full of uncertainty, we can never know when it will come, and we have no control over life after death, which is the source of all the regrets associated with death.
For young people, making a will is the first step to reducing regrets.
It can be those words buried deep in the heart that cannot be spoken, and continue to tell their feelings to relatives and friends, or it can be to arrange specific property distribution information and future affairs, so that the family will not be at a loss at that time, and even a simple wish such as "taking my brother to eat Haidilao" and "taking care of kittens and dogs......
A will may never be able to write what is in your heart, but it can at least make you rethink the meaning of life and death. Although the regret caused by death can never be completely eliminated, if you can arrange the "afterlife" in advance, why not be a happy thing to reduce regrets?
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A young netizen shared his feelings when he made a will, "It's like dying in advance, as if I have stood at the end of my life and looked back on my life." ”
The will is not only an explanation of one's "posthumous affairs", but also a summary and reflection of one's current life. The reason why many young people feel the meaning of life again at the moment of making a will is precisely because the will allows them to re-see the relationship with life.
"Making a will is not the end, but a new beginning, and I will live more seriously in the future. For them, thinking about the "afterlife" in advance is also the beginning of learning to live well, and it is as important a ritual in life as the well-known coming-of-age ceremony.
What is important, what is indifferent, what should be pursued, and what can be let go...... Everything was already answered when the will was made.
Perhaps it was knowing that compared to the house, what parents needed was care and companionship, so the girl wrote a will to "leave the house to her best friend".
In fact, as a compulsory course in life, this generation of young people is no longer running away from death, they are accepting the inevitability of "human beings are inherently dead".
Write a eulogy, make a will, take a posthumous photo, donate organs...... More and more death-related activities and issues are becoming younger, which also means that this generation of young people is beginning to face death, think about death, and begin to disenchant death.
To this day, death is still a subject of fear, but they no longer shy away from it as they did in the past.