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Life is a race. It's not a race you are running alone. You are running as one of a relay team carrying with you the baton of all you have been handed by those who ran before. How you choose to run is up to you, but make a conscious choice of your principles and stick to them. Run with all the courage and determination you can muster, always bearing in mind that those to whom you hand over will carry all of that with them. Never believe that your efforts don't matter. The strength of your run may change the course of the race forever.
Having to abandon my regular charitable donations was one of my most painful survival tactics when my husband decided to go off and marry someone else. Instead I have worked over the years with a group of friends to hold four jumble sales every year, each for a different charity. Since we began doing this we have raised of over £50,000 for a series of charities, amongst which were various Cancer treatment and support organisations. It's a small contribution when we have all lost too many in the ongoing battle to defeat this terrible disease.

I agree with one of the earlier respondents; be happy, be healthy and be kind (to yourself and others).

I don’t have advice because I don’t think we’ve done very well with the world as it is. I think we need to listen more to the young people like the inspiring Greta Thornburg and Milala Yusufi (probably incorrect spellings sorry) who are already wise beyond years and not clouded by decades of global governmental words but little action. They know that the lifestyles we live now aren’t healthy or sustainable and yet we allow our Governments to push their own capitalist agendas of increased GDP above the world being here. I don’t want my future great great great grandchildren to be forced to live in space or on a desolated earth because we couldn’t get our governments to listen to these inspirational young people and all the scientists.

I wish to be able to live my life in peace, safe and secure - that's it!

I would tell my grandchildren the same as I told my daughter:

Be happy
Be kind
Be the best you can be at what you do
Don’t follow the crowd

And finally.....
If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all

Be kind, helpful, honest and have a job

I do indeed have a will - and as for a wish; perhaps, be mindful.

May you grow up and grow old seeing the beauties of this world, safe, well and pollution free.

I hope that people will realise the insanity of overconsumption by a few is destroying our beautiful planet. I hope people will realise sooner rather than later that living sustainably is our only option.

My son is already working for an environmental organisation and doing his bit to help the planet. I am very proud of him. I hope that future generations value the planet better than we have and realise the importance of climate change and the wild life we have before its too late.

For everything good that someone does to you pass it on

It's ok to make mistakes - everyone does.
Let go of expectation.
Accept what is.
You are loved for who you are - not for what you do.

I tell them that time is precious.Time with those you love is never time wasted.Jobs will come and go but those who are dear to you need to be nurtured.

I talk to my grandchildren about what interests them, & encourage them to find out more.
I hope the world in which they become adults will be kind, forgiving and happy. The steps I take are adopting animals, & donating to animal charities.
My husband & I have made mirror wills, which include a donation to charity.

What I wish for my grand daughter is that she always be loved

Live the best life you can. Be kind to everyone and everything. Look after your health and those you love ?.

I hope my grandchildren will live life to the full but remember to be kind and tolerant and remember that everyone has to learn to compromise in order to live happily together.

Good health, and that they always have someone in their lives who truly loves them.

Be healthy, be happy and laugh. A lot!!!

The best advice to give anyone is be the best you can be and treat others as you would like to be treated yourself .
That stands also for the environment and everything around you.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Dalai Lama

Happiness, good health, few troubles and the strength to deal with any they do have.

My hopes for the future generations are that they each live the best life they can, look after their health sensibly, make good choices at school, with friends, with activities like sport, art, music etc and hope these help them make the right choices during their teens and into adulthood. I hope they will learn to be kind to each other as well as themselves, that they will recognise leading a good, even quite simple life can be rewarding. I would like to think future generations will treat the planet, animals and plant life better than any other generation, to use resources wisely, not be greedy or selfish, not to continue the arrogant trends of those who came before and put their own needs over those of other living things. Maybe consider finding solutions to the way we over-populate the planet (contraception, limiting how many children we have etc). I hope they will live in a more balanced, fairer world, where society has bridged the chasm between the privileged few and the poor so that everybody has a shot at a half-decent lifestyle. I hope that education will focus on academia and other life skills that are needed. It would be nice to think there will no longer be kids leaving school illiterate, that they will have at least basic skills around cooking, shopping, budgeting and, importantly, forming relationships with other people, being good neighbours when setting up home for themselves. I'd like to think there will come a time (in Britain at least but worldwide would be even better) where nobody goes hungry, where everybody has somewhere safe and decent to live and is able to access any services they need. If discrimination, poverty, violence could be left in the past so that people have more respect, a sense of self-worth and nobody has to live in fear it might make the world a nicer place to live. If young people learn to help each other, to bring each other up rather than put each other down, to be taught from an early age violence is unacceptable, to eradicate domestic violence or other hidden forms of abuse.

Even though I have next-to-nothing to leave I did write a will but it needs updating really. I don't currently have anything I could leave to CRUK but if my financial situation changes I would certainly consider a donation in my revised will. Both of my parents as well as friends, colleagues and acquaintances have had cancer and I'm acutely aware that most families will be touched by cancer at some stage so would be happy to support research into prevention, treatment and cures. I guess overall I just want future generations to learn from our mistakes and not repeat them or make things worse. I'd like them to be happy, content, confident, hardworking rounded decent human beings, good parents, friends, neighbours, colleagues, team-mates etc

Enjoy life; think of others and be happy

A peaceful planet with ecological and social stability. And for each of them, good health and a loving home, everything they need but not everything they want.