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A surprisingly large number of people fear that if they write a will, they are somehow fatally jinxing themselves. They fear that the act of signing that piece of paper that talks about their death will in some inexplicable way cause their death to occur. If this were actually the case, a large fraction of our society would pass away every day, as wills are signed all over the world.

Superstitions can be hard to overcome simply because they are not really grounded in any real experience or fact, and therefore cannot really be countered with logic. A person with this kind of superstition is really suffering from an exaggeration of everyone’s natural fear of dying.

Just as opening a bank account will not cause you to win the lottery or saying hello to the dentist will not make your teeth fall out, there is no causal link between making a will and passing away. Everyone in the world dies eventually, with or without a will.