Video: Bob Maddison
explains why he recorded a video will

Speaking to your loved ones from beyond the grave might sound
rather spooky, but recording a video to accompany your will seems
to be gaining in popularity.

One advocate of the idea is 61-year-old Bob Maddison, of St
Mary's Road, Tonbridge - a father to two children and
grandfather to three.

Although he is in good health, and has already written a formal
last will and testament, the retired engineering lecturer has
decided to create a video address for when he dies.

He hopes the tape will provide his children and grandchildren
with a much more intimate legacy than would be possible a
traditional written will:

“One part of the video will is giving advice. All the normal
will is about is leaving money, leaving assets, whereas this gives
it a more personal touch.”

Research indicates nearly two thirds of people in the UK would
like to create a video to explain their will and testament to loved
ones.

And up to 70 per cent believe that a video address could avoid
potential conflicts following the reading of a written will.

The survey was commissioned by Remember a Charity, an
organisation that encourages people to leave legacies to charity in
their wills.