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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The money for Helena would go towards what exactly? I feel like with these tragedies there's always fundraising but it's never clear why exactly. I imagine she has health insurance -- though I also don't know how that would work now bc if she's on her mother or father's plan and they are deceased, what happens to any dependents on the plan? Seems like the father was a lawyer, so hopefully there's a will and/or trust to pay the mortgage and provide for the daughter -- but I honestly don't know how common these set ups are or whether people just don't do them bc who thinks about these kinds of freak accidents.[/quote]

She's a high school sophomore who has just lost both of her parents and her big brother in a horrific car accident.  I have no idea what this family's finances were but it might take time to sort that all out anyway.  In the meantime there is a young girl who has just lost her entire family and is seriously injured herself.  She probably doesn't have quick access to much money herself.

People want to feel like they are doing something.  Contributing to a fund for Helena seems appropriate to me.  I have a kid her age and I just can't imagine....poor girl.[/quote]

+1. It's just about doing something to help. Even if the family is financially solid, accounts and trusts will need to be transferred to her, lawyers may be needed for that - at age 15, she doesn't have quick access. Not to mention, right now she's in no physical or mental condition to deal with all that so it's likely that next of kin will just step up and start paying - this money will likely go to them for immediate expenses for Helena and her parents and brother and this way, they won't need to "collect" from her when she does get access to funds -- not saying they would if they are financially solid -- but I have to believe bills will start arriving right away from the auto insurance deductible to hospital premiums to whatever else. [/quote]

Curious if you that are donating donated to the families that were killed in the church van in PG county a few weeks ago? [/quote]

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