Who Owns Your Badge?

[APhi Sailorgirl]

Hey,
I was just curious as to who really owns your badge for your organization.

I know for Alpha Phi, while you are living, the badge is yours; however, once you have passed, you are supposed to put in your will what happens to the badge. So you could say you're being buried in it, giving to a relative, etc. If you do not state where you badge goes after your passing, it then belongs to the fraternity and should be returned. This is why some sisters (who have the money) police places such as ebay to buy the badges and return them to Internationals.

My question is it is like that for all groups? It seems in looking at some other groups, that some sisters collect badges, giving me the impression that the organization doesn't want the badge back?

Just curious what the other policies are? Course personally, I think it would be a bit weird to have another sister's badge, and if Internationals has it, they would probably store it a lot better than I could.