Permit me to do a little prying. It's for your own benefit. How many of you have made a will? You don't have to raise your hands, but it could be an important question for many of us. Many family squabbles have erupted over the lack of a wellthought out will. There is a book titled THE 400WORD WILL. It contains some interesting wills from Japan. Listen to a few of these. I quote:

"After you finish a simple funeral," wrote Mitsuyo Honda, 43, housewife, "I would like you to grab a handful of ashes and get on a bullet train . . . When you arrive in Tokyo, take a cab and get off at Ginza (in central Tokyo), then find a coffee shop and take a break . . . Then find a nice tree along the street, and quietly cast my ashes at its root."

Or this one: "My dream was to climb a 3,000meter mountain wi…