I’m still confused as to why there’s an advantage to making the donation posthumously
One consideration may be that it helps you “factor out” the whole charity issue from your daily life. You can buy an iPhone without feeling guilty about not donating the money to charity if you’ve precommitted to posthumous donation. You’ll just never have to think of it again, it’ll take care “of itself”. It may work for some.
If you live already having donated, you may feel bad about not donating more, whereas if the donation is by definition always in your future, you can always assuage yourself with “well, that’s why I will donate in my will”, and also, you can still harbor the option of keeping the money for your family, for whatever reason, after all. You can feel like a saint while it’s in your will, and it’ll cost you nothing if you turn scumbag, I mean, if there’s unforeseen cost with your grandchild’s college funding, and you go back on your pledge.
One consideration may be that it helps you “factor out” the whole charity issue from your daily life. You can buy an iPhone without feeling guilty about not donating the money to charity if you’ve precommitted to posthumous donation. You’ll just never have to think of it again, it’ll take care “of itself”. It may work for some.
Ah. Free fuzzies. In that case, requesting comments on it is status signalling among other things.
One consideration may be that it helps you “factor out” the whole charity issue from your daily life. You can buy an iPhone without feeling guilty about not donating the money to charity if you’ve precommitted to posthumous donation. You’ll just never have to think of it again, it’ll take care “of itself”. It may work for some.
If you live already having donated, you may feel bad about not donating more, whereas if the donation is by definition always in your future, you can always assuage yourself with “well, that’s why I will donate in my will”, and also, you can still harbor the option of keeping the money for your family, for whatever reason, after all. You can feel like a saint while it’s in your will, and it’ll cost you nothing if you turn scumbag, I mean, if there’s unforeseen cost with your grandchild’s college funding, and you go back on your pledge.
Also, see my edit.
Ah. Free fuzzies. In that case, requesting comments on it is status signalling among other things.