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[quote=Anonymous]Unless you want to help your parents with their retirement or provide support for a sibling who is expected to have limited earning potential, and assuming you have enough savings to pay for a funeral if something happened to you, you don't need life insurance until you have dependents.  True, it will be cheaper now, but your needs and income are possibly so different now from what they will be when the kids come along that you may not be in a position now get what will make sense later.

Consider putting the money you would allocate to life insurance into buying yourself good disability insurance instead--definitely long term, and perhaps short term as well.  Public benefits only pay a fraction of your income prior to the disability, and for most people, it would be hard to live on that.  Private disability insurance may actually improve YOUR quality of life should you become unable to work for any reason.

If you do opt for life insurance now, be sure to get a level premium term policy with at least a thirty year term.  Avoid whole life policies; they cost too much relative to what they pay on death.  
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