TIL a huge number of cold storage coins held by bitcoiners will be lost forever on their death.
Not a huge number since most of the people giving "good" advice in this thread aren't holding more than a couple coins.
Not a single person saying "Well, I printed my thingy onto a metal wallet and then I bought a safe."
I think we're just securing a bit of money, not trying to trick Danny Ocean and his band of misfits.
I printed mine out on multiple paper wallets. I didn't want to have the entire block of coins all on one address.
The reason for this, in my mind, was that when I want to spend some, I wouldn't have to sweep the entire sum, then re-distribute once again. I have 3BTC here, 2BTC there, 1BTC there, there, there...you get the idea. It's a little more work, but if you're storing one somewhere, then why not store 5, or 6, or 12 paper wallets?
I have multiple copies of each wallet, paper and digital, and I have the passphrase in my head, (plus encrypted on USB that my wife can figure out if need be). I've also left detailed directions for her on how to de-crypt the private key once she has the passphrase (including the link to my post where I freaked out when first trying to access the private key).
If you used some kind of wallet service (either a web wallet or a software wallet) then the wallet would simply send the amount you do not spend to your change address, so you would still have access to the rest of your money.