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[quote=Anonymous][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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I was one of those kids that got to clean up after a shitty alcoholic father who got drunk and pissed in our bedrooms when we were children so arguably I have already done my time. Why would I do it again? I wasn’t parented. Do I still
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Oh wow your parents weren’t perfect? That’s too bad, my parents were absolutely perfect in every way, that’s the only reason I feel any gratitude to them. Obviously if your parents aren’t perfect then it’s perfectly proper to crap on them in their old age.[/quote]

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