There is a widespread superstition which deters many persons from practical consideration of the question "What will be done with my property after my death?" The superstition seems to be that making a will is an invitation to fate to strike one down. It is difficult to believe that physicians, whose professional duties require a sensible attitude and intelligent philosophy on the ever present matter of life and death, could be among the superstitious. Whatever the reason, the evidence indicates that physicians are certainly among the many who fail to make necessary provisions for distribution of their hard-earned possessions when the inevitable occurs. Indeed, physicians were counted "present" when a recent survey disclosed that 60 per cent of the decedents whose estates were probated in the Probate Court of Cook County in the last 20 years failed to leave wills. The result was that the estates of all these persons—