Your music collection when you will die

Sorry to bring up this rather grim subject but I wonder if anybody has also had thoughts about this. I’m 45, not yet old but coming into that age when more and more you start to see people of your age dying prematurely, falling victims of cancer etc. I don't lead a very healthy life either. Even if I will hopefully still live long, suddenly death does not seem so remotely far away as it used to.

During many years I have built up a decent collection of close to 700 albums and I hope that by the time I will die it will have grown up significantly bigger. Quite a lot of time, effort and money will have been spent on this hobby of prog.

On the other hand I have no children and no plans to have any, my girlfriend does not like prog and the few friends I have who like prog live in my native Spain 1200 kms from where I live now, and in any case they have already music collections not much different from mine. No one from my family is a progger either.

If I die suddenly tomorrow I can only guess what my girlfriend would do with my music collection and all my other stuff. I guess she would ask my family and a few of my friends in Spain if they were interested in keeping something but given the distance I guess they might probably say ‘no thanks, do whatever you want with it all’.

The idea that my music collection might end up being sold for peanuts to some flea-market trader, or even worse, thrown away in a waste container makes me feel uncomfortable. So much passion and money wasted.

Have you had similar thoughts? What could be a good legacy so that our hard-earned music collection will be preserved and enjoyed by someone who can truly appreciate it?

I'm going to tell them to make a fort and put my body inside.

If you don't have any friends or family that are interested in it I am sure that music schools or libraries would probably be happy to take them.

My 1500 cds of classical music and my almost 1000 of rock music (mostly prog) will aucfer a sad fate I guess. But I intend to live as long as possible, so they may be obsolete when I pass away. But if death suddenly strikes, I hope the rock part is sent to a friend of mine and the classical to...

Have you ever thought that if one of us in PA dies suddenly, most probably other PA members will never find out? Such is the nature of virtual communities. Cherish your real life communities.

I'm takin' everything with me......

The Doctor wrote: The T wrote: My 1500 cds of classical music and my almost 1000 of rock music (mostly prog) will aucfer a sad fate I guess. But I intend to live as long as possible, so they may be obsolete when I pass away. But if death suddenly strikes, I hope the rock part is sent to a friend of mine and the classical to... Have you ever thought that if one of us in PA dies suddenly, most probably other PA members will never find out? Such is the nature of virtual communities. Cherish your real life communities.   My computer is set up so that if I don't log on to it for a period of seven days (which would require my death), it will spam the hell out of all the libertarian threads.

So basically you are already dead...

I'm one of the elder statesmen on here, I guess; I'm 61 in Jan.

if my daughter don't want my coolection i will send to my university's discotheque.

To be quite frank, I have not thought about it much.  I would prefer my collection to go to someone, singular or plural, who would appreciate it.  Since it is vast, near 4,000 titles, and in multiple forms (CD, downloads, cassettes, lps [fortunately no more 8-tracks]), and diverse (Various genres of rock including prog, blues, classical, International, jazz) this may be a difficult undertaking.  I only have a couple of friends who are into Prog specifically, so I would want that part to go to them.  I am 51 with no kids.  I have, however, nine nieces and nephews, but none of them are interested in Prog.  They are so normal they would probably see it all as that weird music their weird uncle listens to and not take it seriously in any way.

I actually have thought about it.  Yeah, no kids, so either my wife can sell them if she lives longer or donate them to a library, school or public.  I think it's actually rather valuable, so if I were to die today aaaaaarrrrrrrrrggggggg