OleMiss, I'm not picking on you, just using you as an example, I promise!
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Originally posted by OleMissGlitter
"... I believe we are suppose to turn our badge to headquarters when we die. I know our chapter sends our suspended members badges to headquarters. I'm glad my great-grandmother didn't want to be buried with her badge! It's from 1924, 80 years old this year, and it's the all pearl badge. I love my AOII Badge! I'm all about passing it down from generation to generation!
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(my emphasis on supposed)
Yes,
WE as initiated members all know what we're supposed to do with our badges upon our passing, but, see the problem is, when we're dead, we can't exactly talk, so our family has no idea what to do with our posessions unless we
tell them beforehand. That's why so many fraternal groups advocate putting a clause or section in your will, filling out a badge disposition form and keeping it with either our legal documents or our jewelry or making a permanent record of what we want done. So they don't end up for sale in a flea market or an antique store or an estate sale or eBay.
Plus, when we're dead it's kind of hard for us to send stuff back to HQ. You know, lack of mobility and life and all that...