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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how someone with six children and an unemployed wife would not carry sufficient life insurance for that one time they are killed when their car is run into a barrier wall.

People procrastinate on such things. It’s not uncommon. Stop judging.

i judge bad parenting, especially when the parents start begging strangers based on their bad parenting. YDY.

Begging aside, you think every person who dies young who doesn’t have a multi million dollar life insurance policy is a bad parent?

Okay. I judge you for being stupid and an @$$hole. And for modeling that to your kids, which I guess could make you… a bad parent?

No, not at all. I do think it is bad parenting for an educated person, which Vanderbeek was, for failing to ensure that his unemployed wife and six children are financially taken care of for at least one-year in an untimely death. He should have had the assets (which apparently he did with the new revelation of the home purchase), or life insurance. He was not a poor man unable to secure life insurance prior to his medical diagnosis. I know of people with limited education who have acquired life insurance because they loved their wife and/or children enough to consider their welfare if they are electrocuted while working on the third rail. I don't know why you posters are making excuses for this man. I think it has something to do with he looks like you and yours.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how someone with six children and an unemployed wife would not carry sufficient life insurance for that one time they are killed when their car is run into a barrier wall.

People procrastinate on such things. It’s not uncommon. Stop judging.

i judge bad parenting, especially when the parents start begging strangers based on their bad parenting. YDY.

How does anyone not agree that teaching kids to be entitled and live beyond their means is bad parenting?

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Anonymous wrote:They bought the $4.7M farm within the last month (they’d previously been renting it). Why are they asking us regular folk for money again?

Is that really true? That's actually kind of infuriating to be asking for donations if that's true. Ugh.

DP That's what is being reported on TMZ
https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/13/james-van-der-beek-purchased-texas-ranch-before-dying/

The ranch is a massive 36 acres with a 5,149-square-foot main house that features 5 bedrooms and three bathrooms. There's also cabins and a pool on the ranch, plus sweeping views of the Pedernales River.

Ffs. People dumb enough to donate, whatever.

Until he got sick, why wasn't he churning out Hallmark Channel movies? He would have made bank and his widow wouldn't have needed to grift. As it was, he barely worked for 20 years and she didn't work at all. And now people are paying her millions to live a lavish lifestyle? Okay.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how someone with six children and an unemployed wife would not carry sufficient life insurance for that one time they are killed when their car is run into a barrier wall.

People procrastinate on such things. It’s not uncommon. Stop judging.

i judge bad parenting, especially when the parents start begging strangers based on their bad parenting. YDY.

Begging aside, you think every person who dies young who doesn’t have a multi million dollar life insurance policy is a bad parent?

Okay. I judge you for being stupid and an @$$hole. And for modeling that to your kids, which I guess could make you… a bad parent?

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Anonymous wrote:They bought the $4.7M farm within the last month (they’d previously been renting it). Why are they asking us regular folk for money again?

Is that really true? That's actually kind of infuriating to be asking for donations if that's true. Ugh.

DP That's what is being reported on TMZ
https://www.tmz.com/2026/02/13/james-van-der-beek-purchased-texas-ranch-before-dying/

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Anonymous wrote:I find it hard to have sympathy for someone like Van der Beek who was a full throated supporter of politicians, like Trump, who actively make healthcare less affordable.

Really?? You can’t have sympathy for him? That’s strange and I’m sad you call yourself a Democrat (I presume).

What’s strange about it? He and his wife are MAGA and actively voted for and promoted politicians who make healthcare less accessible and more expensive for most people. Beyond me why people are glazing him now.

STFU.

Is any of that inaccurate? NP.

It’s all lies. Apparently his wife posted some anti-vaccine stuff during Covid and some other crunchy health things. James himself never posted anything like that, nor did he ever promote any politician or proclaim himself to be MAGA. But apparently his wife stepped out of line at some point, so some people want to write off the whole family. A weird reflection on our modern times.

He was a conservative Christian with six kids and a MAHA wife. Use your brain.

Christian =/= MAGA for one, and two, he didn’t promote any politicians which is what the prior post claimed.

Conservative Christian, and maha have very very high correlation to MAGA, north of 90 percent.

The way MAGA is thrown around, anyone who isn't full on lib-trd is MAGA at this point. It is a meaningless term.

It most certainly is not.

NP yeah it is. Its old, tired and meaningless. When most of the country is labeled that it doesn't matter now does it?

You all here did that!

Got it, MAGA is sick and tired of being labeled MAGA. Suck it up snowflake.

You're so ignorant. Really, really ignorant. Its just sad. Im sad for you honestly. Lots of people are sick of you all and guess what snowflake?They're not MAGA but they're not psychotic left labeling everyone MAGA or racist either. If you had a brain you would be able to realize this.

You're not helping the democratic party like you think you are you're hurting it.

Anonymous wrote:They bought the $4.7M farm within the last month (they’d previously been renting it). Why are they asking us regular folk for money again?

Exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how someone with six children and an unemployed wife would not carry sufficient life insurance for that one time they are killed when their car is run into a barrier wall.

People procrastinate on such things. It’s not uncommon. Stop judging.

i judge bad parenting, especially when the parents start begging strangers based on their bad parenting. YDY.

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Anonymous wrote:Who knows about his health insurance. Years of cancer treatments and home nursing could have drained his savings. But my guess is he had plenty squirreled away, enough to buy the farm, and gullible fans are now paying for the rest.

https://people.com/james-van-der-beek-secured-down-payment-for-familys-texas-ranch-before-death-11906987


It's absurdly entitled to expect to reside on a multi-million-dollar ranch when you don't have the funds. It's Texas. They could have found a perfectly nice house for a million.

The nice thing is that you don’t have to make a donation if you don’t want to. There are a lot of people who do want to, and that’s their choice.

Anonymous wrote:Who knows about his health insurance. Years of cancer treatments and home nursing could have drained his savings. But my guess is he had plenty squirreled away, enough to buy the farm, and gullible fans are now paying for the rest.

https://people.com/james-van-der-beek-secured-down-payment-for-familys-texas-ranch-before-death-11906987


It's absurdly entitled to expect to reside on a multi-million-dollar ranch when you don't have the funds. It's Texas. They could have found a perfectly nice house for a million.

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Anonymous wrote:Who knows about his health insurance. Years of cancer treatments and home nursing could have drained his savings. But my guess is he had plenty squirreled away, enough to buy the farm, and gullible fans are now paying for the rest.

It is amazing the blinders being worn by his fans in this thread two decades after his period of stardom.

He spoke about the issue. I guess he did not get residuals from Dawson’s Creek.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand how someone with six children and an unemployed wife would not carry sufficient life insurance for that one time they are killed when their car is run into a barrier wall.

Celebrities… they’re just like us!

Do you know how many parents in America don’t have life insurance? How many parents don’t have college funds set up for their kids? How many parents can’t feed their children on weekends and summer school breaks so our public schools have to step in and feed their children kids while school is out of session?

On one hand I understand holding JVB to a higher standard since he had significant earning potential. On the other hand hand, nothing about his background (college dropout, profession was actor) suggests that he would have any understanding of finance and fiscal responsibility.

I believe he grew up UMC in connecticut with a dad who was a telecom executive, so, he did not come from a trailer park with zero role models for how to save money and spend money, like some teen actors.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it hard to have sympathy for someone like Van der Beek who was a full throated supporter of politicians, like Trump, who actively make healthcare less affordable.

Really?? You can’t have sympathy for him? That’s strange and I’m sad you call yourself a Democrat (I presume).

What’s strange about it? He and his wife are MAGA and actively voted for and promoted politicians who make healthcare less accessible and more expensive for most people. Beyond me why people are glazing him now.

STFU.

Is any of that inaccurate? NP.

It’s all lies. Apparently his wife posted some anti-vaccine stuff during Covid and some other crunchy health things. James himself never posted anything like that, nor did he ever promote any politician or proclaim himself to be MAGA. But apparently his wife stepped out of line at some point, so some people want to write off the whole family. A weird reflection on our modern times.

He was a conservative Christian with six kids and a MAHA wife. Use your brain.

Christian =/= MAGA for one, and two, he didn’t promote any politicians which is what the prior post claimed.

Conservative Christian, and maha have very very high correlation to MAGA, north of 90 percent.

The way MAGA is thrown around, anyone who isn't full on lib-trd is MAGA at this point. It is a meaningless term.

+1 same with calling everyone a racist. It means nothing now.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it hard to have sympathy for someone like Van der Beek who was a full throated supporter of politicians, like Trump, who actively make healthcare less affordable.

Really?? You can’t have sympathy for him? That’s strange and I’m sad you call yourself a Democrat (I presume).

What’s strange about it? He and his wife are MAGA and actively voted for and promoted politicians who make healthcare less accessible and more expensive for most people. Beyond me why people are glazing him now.

STFU.

Is any of that inaccurate? NP.

It’s all lies. Apparently his wife posted some anti-vaccine stuff during Covid and some other crunchy health things. James himself never posted anything like that, nor did he ever promote any politician or proclaim himself to be MAGA. But apparently his wife stepped out of line at some point, so some people want to write off the whole family. A weird reflection on our modern times.

He was a conservative Christian with six kids and a MAHA wife. Use your brain.

Christian =/= MAGA for one, and two, he didn’t promote any politicians which is what the prior post claimed.

Conservative Christian, and maha have very very high correlation to MAGA, north of 90 percent.

The way MAGA is thrown around, anyone who isn't full on lib-trd is MAGA at this point. It is a meaningless term.

Anonymous wrote:Who knows about his health insurance. Years of cancer treatments and home nursing could have drained his savings. But my guess is he had plenty squirreled away, enough to buy the farm, and gullible fans are now paying for the rest.

It is amazing the blinders being worn by his fans in this thread two decades after his period of stardom.