Death and Dolls, what will happen to your dolls if you die?

Since I do not yet own a dollfie (she's hopefully going to be ordered soon), I only own pullips, but I think I would give them to my sister, shes admired them since I got my first pullip, My Melody. As for a dollfie, I would have her buried with me, I worked so hard to get her!

If I were to die my boyfriend and amaris would probably take whoever they can and the rest of my girls I would hope would find homes with those here on the forum instead of being lost to pawn shops and ebay D:!

My lovely collection would go to my first daughter. (first wife) Its up to her in due time whether she decides to keep or to sell. she's turning 5 yr old this year. Most of my hobby will go to her though she's in a different place she will have everything.

Well, if my family/fiance wanted to keep anything for sentimental reasons that would be nice, but I hope that they would sell the rest of my collectibles (dolls, figures, etc) to help cover the funeral expenses.

 

I plan to be cremated rather than buried and I will have no need for such things in death.

I've thought about this a little bit and I have a few thoughts on what would happen if I met my untimely demise.

 

First and foremost all my figures and dolls would be left to Sam with some instructions I'd trust him to follow out.

 

Elle and Saber have to stay together with him. (As well as Yoko and Nia!)

Maya goes to my sister.

 

The others are mostly for selling or giving to my closest friends in the hobby~

But you guys will know who gets what when the time comes!

Well, I've been thinking about this a bit since the topic first came up and I have mixed feelings on what I'd want to do with my girls if I died. I guess I have two scenarios.... untimely death or die of old age.

 

In the event of an untimely death ( car wreck, drowned, etc ) I think I would want most of my girls to go back to the people I purchased them from if they wanted them. So that would mean Elisabeth, Sango and Katerina would go back to Salica, Reiko and Kino would go to Mitsuki, etc. The other girls would either be offered for sale to people I know in the hobby who would keep them and love them and not just sell them off to make a profit. But Manami would go to my sister, she really loves Manami and it wouldn't be right to have her go anywhere else.

 

Now if I died of old age, I have no clue who among my DD friends would still be around or willing to pay money for these girls. So I would probably want to either give them away to hobby friends or family ( If I ever have any ) and pray that they live on that way. I'd hate to be buried with any of them because I'd want them to continue living on, having fun and being the beauties they are.

 

 

 

Billy

I've thought about this quite a bit since my friend D.ark passed away last May. Although her passing was very sudden, she knew that her illness was terminal for quite some time and she slowly started to streamline her collection (i.e. sold off some resins) to focus on her DD's. Other dolls she packed away into their boxes. However even with her foresight there was doll stuff all over her flat and her collection was so diverse that it took several friends in the hobby quite some time to help her husband sort through her collection. Even with our keen eyes, little things like hats, shoes and necklaces were still misplaced & there were random bits in very odd places 0_0"

 

Having been on that sad end of having to sort through a deceased friend's things made me realize that if anything were to happen to me, my hubby would be absolutely overwhelmed too. Every time I go to work there is always a miniscule chance I may not come home - it's not something I think about too often (because that would be morbid and depressing) but it's simply a reality. As a result I've organized my doll stuff more neatly - wigs are all in one storage tub now, I try to put unworn doll clothes back into their default packaging (or at least all together in a ziplock bag) when I take it off a girl.

 

I have flattened a few yellow cardboard DD boxes to save space, and put the default papers, outfits and whatnot into one of the hard doll boxes (i.e. Saber, Yuki Morikawa) and labelled what's in which box. My system is still a bit messy but for the most part everything is contained to 2 places in the house.

 

If the worse were to happen, I don't think hubby would sell anything since he's very sentimental, but if he did I'd like him to try to re-home them to my friends in the hobby first. I'd expect him to keep his favourite DD girls and maybe give the resin dolls to my sister.

Well, I'd hope to take one or two with me when they burry me. >< The rest, I'd probably gift to my niece/nephew if my brother has kids by then or even grand-niece/nephew. I don't plan on having kids of my own (if it happens though, I'll give them to my kids XD ), so...they could sell them if they want money or keep them. Their call. I won't be here to judge them for their actions and I hope they don't think of it that way, since...really, I won't be here. XD I do hope they'll love the hobby though and continue having them and do things with them, else I hope they'll decide to sell them so they 1) can get money 2) the dolls can go to people who will really do things with them.

It would depend. If I were to die in an accident or of sudden illnesscin the next 2-3 years my boyfriend has been advised what to do with my dolls. He would keep my most cherished girls and would then contact my friends who have feigned great interest in one of my dolls, I would most likely ask him to sell them to fund one big holiday to japan where it would still feel like I was with him

i suppose i would arrange for them to be passed down to possible children or nieces/nephews that i hope would take good care of them still... I wish for my dolls to be passed down in my family if they have to instead of being sold to random people...

This is a conversation I've had with my husband, some of the dolls will go to family, but I told him to sell most of them so they can be with people who will love them. But I have a feeling they would just sit around for a few years before he'd be up for selling them.

All the dolls are going into a storage locker, hopefully to be found by the cast of Storage Wars

All the dolls are going into a storage locker, hopefully to be found by the cast of Storage Wars

 

 

LOL! Let's hope it's not Barry because he's so rough when he goes thru lockers! He'd toss them around and probably break them! And I hope Daryl or Dave don't get them either because Daryl is as dumb as a rock and Dave is just a jerk. Let's pray Jarrod and Brandy get them, I think Brandy would at least take care of them and know they were worth something.

 

 

 

Billy

In some ways this is a seriously easy topic for me to answer. Obviously Raven comes first. If for some reason he were no longer around, my mom and sister Elizabeth would get their choice (if they have any/are still around) since they are the only ones in the family that seem to care. After that I'd really love for them to go to homes where they would be loved, and hopefully kept within the forum "family" since you guys know them through their stories. I have a bit of a preference who would get first dibs, but in the end I want them to go to people who can appreciate them.

 

Sure it is easy to summarize like that, but it is still hard for me not to get really emotional over them and their fate when I'm gone. I know that it is inevitable that they will change, especially Tamayuki, but I don't want them to change entirely. I want them to stay who they are. I'm one of those people who believes if you love something enough, in one way or another it does have a life of it's own. With the stories I write for myself, I don't have to really think about what happens after I'm gone because the definitive outline of their world is written on the page. But with DD the whole scope of things gets a lot more confused because they do express emotions outside of the text written in a photo story, and in some small way have an existence unique to them. Sure it may not be realistically more than a robot, but of life, love, and friendship to me is defined by continuing shared emotions. I would be more than delighted for them to continue to have the chance to 'live out' their stories and be happy. I'd be content for them to be on a shelf sitting with their friends and just be looked at if it made the person happy. The residual life that my DD kids would have, they would continue their stories irregardless if the real world noticed, having a grand old time with their friends.

 

What I wouldn't want is for them to be stripped of who they are, faceups wiped off, and eyes changed, reverting them back into merely a sculpt name and/or number. I don't mind too much about the hair though. But since the eyes are perceived to be "the windows to the soul" and the faceup being the other definitive thing defining each personality, once I have those set, they do not change. If they did, they would no longer be them. Even for Tamayuki I've thought about getting him another pair of eyes of the same kind but smaller so he doesn't look so bug-eyed at times, but I can't bring myself to do it because it would be like I was throwing all of him away. If I had to choose the single part of a DD where the 'soul' is, it's in the eyes. I don't want them being stuck with someone who downright didn't like them. This is why I don't care too much about them being passed on to my genetic family and having my DD suffer though being treated as "Auntie Kyo's creepy dolls". I'm pretty sure my family already think I'm taking up the crazy aunt banner since my great aunt passed away a few years ago. She always gave us soap, socks, and completely nonsensical gifts for Christmas, and dusted the piano before my sister's wedding with a clean pair of her underwear...

 

In short, I just want my DD 'kids' to be able to continue being happy when I'm not here. Although I hope they do miss me, know I loved them every moment they were mine, and not have them forget their first Mommy. Gah... I hate crying when I don't intend to.

 

~Sister Kyoya

Haha nice sister Kyoya, but even with the ipad we can still zoom into that fine print, it's ok to cry, to me death is scary because its the unknown, we will just stop and then what? I would hope the things we treasured in this world find other people who will treasure them too. Not only because of the little people we bought and played with having monetary value but because we loved them, that's makes them treasure. It's a scary and somewhat depressing thought but while am alive and kicking am gonna enjoy the hell out of this hobbie and die with few regrets.

This is actually something I've thought about but never actually talked to my family or boyfriend about what to do. I would hope that they'd sell them but I think my parents would probably keep my first doll since they bought it for me. And thankfully my boyfriend knows exactly what company and sculpt all my dolls are so I'm sure he'd be able to figure things out from there.