These statements of final wishes often contain details about a person's life and possessions.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

How do I give up my right to do whatever is in my power to secure my person or my possessions, when I have no expectation, you might say, ? that others around me are prepared to do so as well?

我怎么能在我不期望,身边的人会这样做的时候，放弃我保护自身和财产安全，不受侵害的权利？

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He lives near New York City in a small apartment with few possessions.

VOA: special.2011.05.16

Now,Mister and Missus James Dillingham Young had two possessions which they valued.

VOA: special.2010.12.25

"I don't want any of my works to be bought by a collector and be put in a house or in a palace and disappear as mere possessions.

VOA: standard.2010.07.30