Where Is Your Collection Going After You Pass Away?

Considering the sheer mess that my room looks like, and our ongoing plans to eventually move out of our current country before it becomes too much of a dystopian hellhole (and, for that matter, our export laws, which don't look kindly on leaving the country with lots of old coins... even if they're mostly old foreign coins) I won't be surprised if I lose my collection well before I pass away.
Also, I believe in the Singularity, so I do not intend to die of old age anyway.

That said, assuming the collection is still with me by then, I do expect that I'll eventually find some relative who would like it (perhaps a kid or grandkid of my younger brother; at some point, it looked like the brother himself is interested, but now that he's 9 he doesn't seem to be as interested anymore - of course it could still change later).

I voted "other" because you don't have an option for "who cares, I'll be dead"

I enjoy it. It relaxes me, it gives me a feeling of pride and satisfaction and really, after I am dead, who cares where it goes. I know I won't.

Hopefully be able to sit in the auction room with a cold beer in my hand and laugh at the stupid amounts it will all bring. Then when the auction firm cheque clears, give all of it to the SPCA. It will be my way of saying what great joy animals have given in this life.
If this doesn't work out ...............honey there all yours enjoy!

I know one collector who is taking a portion of his collection and slabbing it up, it's going to reside with his attorney in some kind of trustee storage for a few decades, then be given to some descendents. His idea is that the value of some of his stuff is going to be much greater than if he sold it now. I think he gave the attorney a couple hundred bucks to shove it in the back of a safe and have it inventoried now and then.

The rest of the collection is being sold off bit by bit, he may get it all done before he's gone.

I'm kind of doing the same thing, but with banknotes. I recall a stamp collection, purchased as new issues in 1938, it was kept in trust until 1988, then given to some grandkids. They made a down payment on a house with the proceeds. Since then, houses have about doubled in value up here, they must have made $250,000 or $350,000 if they kept it.

I would probably gift it to numismatic friends who I meet over the years to come. I want it to be appreciated by someone like it was for me. Hopefully that would be a relative, but if not I'd rather give it to a collector than a relative who likely will sell for the instant cash

Well if I died today, it would be passed to my parents and prob kept as a slightly morbid shrine :/ before being passed to one of my sisters kids when they grew up.

My collections already belong to my first born son. I'm just the curator!

I will keep it until I pass away, but will leave it to a family member.