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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really, truly hope I don't know any of the ones claiming to be owed anything.  By anyone.  Grow the f*ck up.  Take responsibility for your own lives and how they did or did not take shape.  Don't blame anyone else (including and especially an aged parent, you should be ashamed of yourself) for who you married.  Disgusting.    [/quote]

I agree. My husband's mother and her sister could not WAIT until their mother died so that they could get her money. It was horrifying. I loved their mother and just hoped she would live to 110 and that she would spend every penny on herself before she died. And guess what, she lived to 98, and then my husband's mother died of lung cancer five years later. So she wasted twenty years of her life waiting for money that she wasn't even able to enjoy.

On the other hand, [b]my family has all sorts of trusts set up, but we don't talk about them[/b]. I consider it all my parents' money - for a rainy day or medical issues or whatever they might need as they get old.[b] I hate to even think about them because it would mean that something bad happened to my parents.[/b] So I hate this whole thread and the ways that people are wondering about how their parents' money will help finance their own retirements.

Gross.

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What is gross, PP, if I may wonder? You're grossed out by thinking about medical issues? Or aging? Well, guess what? It is going to happen, to your parents, and, eventually, to you, and there is nothing wrong - I repeat, nothing wrong!! - to have wills, financial and medical, ready, and discussed with family members.

Of course, if you're sitting around waiting for aunt Sallie to kick the bucket and leave you a gazillion, you're a rotten human being. But you're also pretty immature, if you stick your head in the sand and pretend that nothing 'bad' will even happen to anyone.[/quote]

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