I'm a Nurse and I Just Drafted My Will - Here's Why

We at WillCraft recently had a client that is young and single. We thought it was really interesting that she was doing her Will at such a young age. We decided to interview her and see what motivated her to do so. Here’s how the interview went…

[Please note that we’ve removed names to protect her privacy. To maintain conciseness in keeping the article short and sweet, certain sections of the interview were paraphrased.]

Question 1: You’re single and still in your 20s, what made you think of doing your Will?

Nurse: Currently I’m living away from my family, and I worry about my family if something does happen to me. I mean, I have my partner here, but I still really have to rely on myself to make plans for my loved ones - so with a Will, if something happens to me then I’ll have that security that they’ll be taken care of.

As a person that’s only starting her career, I may not have much, but I think that whatever little I have also may go a long way for my family, and I want them to have it. Also I remember reading an article, on WillCraft’s website I think, that if you pass away without a Will, your loved ones would have to pay higher legal fees for the court processes that take place after your death, so I guess writing a Will can save my loved ones money too.

Question 2: Are there any other reasons why you decided to do your Will apart from you residing alone in Singapore?

Nurse: I think most people don’t think about such things until it’s too late, or they put it off thinking that nothing will happen to them. When the time comes, they may not be in a state where they still can make plans.

For me, I’m currently a nurse and I guess I’d be considered a frontline worker. With the current COVID situation, I started to really think about what would happen if something happens to me. Of course, since I’m on the frontline, I have a higher chance of something happening to me, but hopefully not. But it makes you think more of what should be done, if something happens. So I think that I felt the urgency of having something like this, or the importance of something like this.

Question 3: How does the COVID situation affect how you think about death, and how your loved ones may be affected by it?

Nurse: It has affected me greatly, for me as a single person, my goal has always been to save up for my future. But if I pass away, or if something happens to me, then obviously I would want all my hard earned savings to go to my loved ones.

The COVID situation made me see that life is really unpredictable, and that has made me realise that it’s important to plan for such situations now, when you have a chance to, rather than wait until you get to a point where you don’t get a chance anymore.

Question 4: There are many options out there including going to the lawyers. Why did you choose WillCraft specifically?

Nurse: I’m in the medical field, so obviously I don’t know much about how to do a Will, but just reading through the WillCraft website made it easier to understand everything because it was simplified and everything was explained in a simplified form.

Also it was very affordable. Because when you think of a will, you think of lawyers and everything and you think of the additional cost. But for me, for someone who is still trying to save up, even if I wanted to plan forward for the sake of my family, if I think of all the costs of the lawyer and everything else. WillCraft is super affordable, when I compared it to going to a lawyer, I realised that I could save around $400 by going to WillCraft. I also read online that the founder of WillCraft used to be a lawyer, that really helped!

If you don’t know anything about wills, law or whatever, it was very easy. I mean when I started researching on the internet, everything was really confusing and I thought I may need someone else’s help to understand things, but after I logged in and tried out the system, I realised that actually it was really simple for me.

Question 5: How did you learn about WillCraft, and how did you find WillCraft?

Nurse: I think I saw it on Facebook, I remember, for the longest time I didn’t pay attention because for me as a person who’s only just started my career, I don’t have anything but my pay, but with the situation now you think about the options in case anything goes wrong.

These things, you may think they were unimportant, but now that there’s an urgency, you really think about it. So I started looking into it, and remembered WillCraft, so I gave it a try since using the interface was free, and I found that it was easy. So that’s when I went into it.

Question 6: Was it really easy? Were there any other parts of the drafting process that you would want to mention?

Nurse: Yes, it was extremely easy.

When I started researching, I thought I was going to spend like hours on it to try and understand everything. But once I did the log-in, and read through, I didn’t have any difficulties understanding.

Obviously there were some terms that I was like “what does this mean”, but there were little tips in the interface that explained those things as the process went along. So when you go through the site, you really don’t feel like you don’t know anything, you feel like you understand everything already. That’s what I like about it.

Also, at the end, I saw the cost. It was so affordable, I wouldn’t think twice about the amount if it would provide security for my family. At the end, that was the best part of it.

Question 7: Was there anything that you didn’t really like on WillCraft, or things that you found to be difficult that you thought could be improved on?

Nurse: Just the part where I had to edit, because I forgot some details about one of the beneficiaries. When I tried to go back, it wasn’t letting me refresh. So I clicked on the little contact us button on the site, and got them on WhatsApp. They replied to me at 10pm on the same night!

It turns out that it was just a little issue with the internet, and I just had to wait for a minute, and it refreshed on its own, so that was fine.

Question 8: How did you feel after finishing the Will?

Nurse: Definitely I felt relieved. After I was sent the confirmation and the Will itself, I also said jokingly to my boyfriend, like “great, now I can get sick without any worry!”. Obviously I didn’t want to get sick, but certainly there’s a psychological sense when you finish it and receive it and you read what you’ve done, you feel relief. You definitely know you’ve done something good and you’re comforted knowing that if something happens in the future, that it is going to be okay.

Question 9: On the scale of 1-10 how likely are you to recommend doing a Will with WillCraft to a friend or family member?

Nurse: For me it’s a 10! From my experience, I know that not only me, but everyone else is feeling the same way during this Covid period, and if I can help them have at least some sense of security, I’ll definitely recommend it.

I’m not selling it to them, I’d just tell them my experience, and from what I felt during the process and after. It’s also completely hassle free, and you don’t need to spend so much money on it. You also will have that sense of security whereby you’ve done something to protect yourself and your family’s future.

I’ll definitely recommend it to people I know.

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