Adventures in Indexing

I recently started indexing WWI, WWII, Death certificates, marriage licenses, birth certificates and the 1940 census.  I was doing this a few years ago, but stopped because life got crazy.  I started up again and they changed things up a bit with a point system for levels of difficulty which a competitive person like me loves.  Here are a few things that I have noticed.  First and foremost how important it is to decipher the handwriting on a document correctly.  That is the only way people can find their ancestors and then when you get a bunch of crazy spellings because you can't read the handwriting it makes it so difficult to find them.  There is a system in place that helps with it.  What happens is that I index a document and then someone else somewhere indexes that same document.  If there are discrepancies between the 2 of us a third person comes in and arbitrates.  This helps with the accuracy.  Then I also have the ability to challenge arbitration if I found out that the other person was chosen as correct in a document.  does that make sense?
Another thing that I have becomes obsessed with is reading everything on death certificates.  I like to know how old they were and what they died of and who signed as a witness.  It is so surreal and it makes me ponder the day when there will be a certificate with my name and date of death and what I died of.  Crazy.  There were a lot of cancer in the early 1900's dying of ear infections, the flu, strep throat and some other crazy things that we just don't really die of anymore.  I also noticed that on marriage certificates if the woman was in her 20's she was labeled spinster.  There are so many fun things you learn from these.  In the draft documents I like to read if they gave a reason for not being able to be part of the draft.  Usually men sighted their wives and children or elderly parents.  Only 2 times out of hundreds of names did I see "because I don't believe in it" and there were lots that even though they had family they didn't list it as a reason not to go.  I also noticed that even though I don't know any of these people personally I have a tender part in my heart for all of them.  It is amazing to me that I don't think of any of them as creepy or weird or mean people.  I think of them with the highest respect and regard and really just see them for what they truly are, one of God's children waiting for their loved ones to find them.