Have you made provisions for your dolls if you die?

I just recently wrote down who gets which doll.
Now, just have to teach my husband all their names...
Maybe I should start sewing name tags in their clothes?

 

I'm not sure if I'm going to have a niece or nephew next. They'd only be 24 years younger than me. I wonder when I would kick it and how old they would be at the time? I have a nephew but I'm not sure he's going to be into dolls. I wouldn't mind some young relative of mine having some of my dolls after I die.

 

January will go to my cousin because she's the only one with a shared interest for dolls and she's like a sister to me.

On the sentimental side I might pass him on to my little sister. She's not too too pleased with him but If I was DEAD, she'd probably love him for sentimental value.

It creeps me out to think my doll is going to last longer then me. Jeebus i'm only 16 I shouldnt be thinking about this stuff.

 

i was lookinf for an interesting topic here, and this deffinetly caught my eye! i have thought about what to do with my dolls when i die are at least what will happen to my girl. i'd like to think that if i die before my parents then hopefully they won't sell her and she'll get to hang around.

i'd also like to think that if someone decides to take care of her for me then hopefully they will interact with her and not try and change who she is. but i guess if i am dead i can't really control that XD

 

Hmm, well I know exactly what would happen with my boy if I died, he go live with SaruX and Edgar~​

 

LOL, this really made me think...I hadn't told anyone where my Sooah would go! So I told my sister she gets her...and then she has to pass her to my neice. heh...

 

Sounds rather disturbing.

If I ever die, I would most likely pass my doll(s) onto my children or close relatives.

 

Do you worry about what will happen to your dolls when you've gone? Hopefully for most of us this will be a long way off, but I was just wondering if anyone else worries about this kind of stuff? lol

Will your family/someone inherit them?

Do you worry that their future owners wouldn't take care of them properly?

Or do you feel that the doll/character will die with you, since their personality and backstory originate from you?


Sorry this is such a morbid topic and I appreciate it might be a very personal question for some people, but I'm just really interested in what other people's take is on this. Thanks xxx

 

I would like my first doll to stay in the family and I wouldn't mind if they sold the rest or kept them, that would be up to my descendants. A lot of my dolls are based on original characters and hopefully before I've died I'll have published one or two of the books featuring those characters. I think that it would be a nice heirloom to have the book and the doll together for future generations to hold while they read the book

 

I'd give them to my child (preferably a daughter..) They'd live of as a part of me!!!

 

this topic is a bit creepy, but i have to admit i have thought about this. no one i know is interested in my dolls enough to want to keep them, and i know they don't know the value of them, and all that comes with. i have thought of making a list, but then again, i feel a bit guilty for how much i have spent on everything.

i have a feeling, that my family would just give them away to charity, i suppose that wouldn't be a bad thing.

maybe i will leave a note that directs them here to the forum, if they want to sell them. when i am gone, i would hope that someone else would have the opportunity to love my collection as i much as i do.

 

I haven't thought of this yet till i saw it ...and since no one in my family likes dolls, i would probably find someone who does [if i die early].....and if i die in a traditional way [old age] i would probably raise my child first [whether a boy or girls] to admire BJD's as much as i do...and then i would be at peace...*O*

 

Actually I have a written letter that I keep incase something happens to me where I would like them to go. I don't have anything of great value (like a huge diamond or what ever) but with my dolls there is someone I would like them to go to. No one in my family collects them or would play with them, but my good friends know their stories and I like to think that if something happened to me, that it would be like a bit of me they could keep around.

Altho two of my friends joke if I got hit by a bus there would be a rush to who got to my Azulen first.

 

Don't be silly. Haven't I already told you I'm having your dolls if you die? XD I already try to take him when you're alive.
You'd probably get mine if I died. I don't think I'd entrust them to my family. Who knows, they might handle them like your mum does, lol.

 

If my husband outlives me, he will keep the dolls, and treat them well (several of them belong to him!) But if I outlive him, I'm thinking I may designate some of my younger doll friends to adopt some of my dolls. I know Elek and Keiko already have admirers who would love them and take good care of them. The only thing I have not decided about is if I want to be buried with a doll. I think so. But I'm having trouble picking one, because I want my dolls to be loved. It would have to be a doll that has a special relationship with me, and that no one else connects to as much as I do. Otherwise it would seem cruel to me.

 

... what a bizarre thread....

I guess I've never really thought about it, I guess it applies to many many other things too.

But I bet I'll come up with some elaborate estate plan and hopefully my benefactors will follow it.

 

Jessica actually had my same sentiments. I plan on being a novelist(I'm working on my English major)..and 3 of the dolls I own currently are characters for the first series I'm working on. I'd like my kids to have them.

As far as if a tragic accident were to occur...Well, my parents know to which of my doll-friends each doll goes.

 

I'm now depressed thinking about this. Gotta go look at pretty dolls now to cheer me up.

 

Wow, this is slightly morbid lol. I have not really thought this one over. No one in my family likes this sort of things - they assume all dolls and anything related are childish

Hmm. Well, like Jescissa, my dolls (and the next few to come) are actually OCs of mine, which I doubt will ever be published (despite how much I love writing), so it would be nice for these ones to be left with someone who will care for them as much as I do.

TBH, I really don't know. It just depends on when I die - I'll cross that road when I come to it

 

For the record, i don't think its overly morbid topic, as I was raised by my grandparents they are in their 70's and after my best friends father died tragicly at the age of 50. It's good to make sure that there is a plan for any personal items you value. For me while my doll's may be worth money, the time and investment I have put in to customizing them, or writing their stories is far more important to me, and I would want them to go to my friends who have sat on the floor with me on a saturday and restrung, or laughed as we did our best darth vader impressions while sanding seams on the front porch.

When I think of my dolls I smile, because I think of my friends laughing and dealing in chocolate for clothes and aesthetics. Or the hilarious antics we got up to, so I actually find it comforting to know that when I pass on (lets face it we all do) that hopefully my ELDERLY contemporaries and i, will have something to give those still left. Till we can meet in the big restringing meet in the sky.