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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s the failure to prepare and the idea that they’ll live forever that grinds my gears - that a the expectation that the kids will handle it all.

No - not in the midst of grief when you are already up to your eyeballs in literal paperwork - filing taxes, collecting mail, submitting death certificates, paying bills, managing the estate. Don’t forget planning a funeral/burial/service. All of these things became my part time job.

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They "handled it all" for you on the front end from when you were born to age 18 (and maybe longer) and now that you're a fully capable adult you have to repay them for a much shorter period of time. Poor you!

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PP quoted and this type of person grinds my gears, too. How dare you assume and generalize! Yes, each and every child of elderly parents should absolutely feel compelled to “repay” one’s parents for giving them life. It’s in the Bible, right-honor thy mother and father?

After all, my largely absent, alcoholic father was abusive to me for a lifetime-verbally and physically. My small town, uneducated mother allowed it to continue, never intervening and never divorcing. It’s a small miracle that I was with each parent literally as they died - and more miraculous that I was able to have a relationship with them. That’s another story.

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