Wow, my buddy actually had a long lost relative leave him money

[HEyHEY]

Some relative of his he has not seen since he was like three years old left him $12,000 dollars. Isn't he a bastard?

[hunter]

1. Never gonna happen to me.

All my relatives, even the long lost relatives, refuse to die with money.

That would be like wasting it.

[johnnie]

2. What a fucker

But be nice to him, that could buy a lot of beer.

[HEyHEY]

3. Or in his case the PERFECT amount to pay off his debts

Bastard

[ThomCat]

4. My dad will die with a lot of money

but I won't see any of it. I was disowned 20 years ago. My sister and brother will share it. :shrug:

[hunter]

5. Well that's okay. Your dad is an idiot.

What kind of fool dies with money?

Some hookers will even visit you in the nursing home.

"Yes, she is my niece. Can you close the door behind you, please?"

And if you are not into that sort of thing, there are plenty of good organizations you can leave your money to.

I probably rank below the SPCA spay and neuter clinic on my mom's list. My dad, I don't know...

[ThomCat]

8. I agree.

Money should be used, not hoarded. There are too many really good organizations out there that desperately need it.

[MissMillie]

6. My son recently had a similar windfall

He got a share of his dad's life insurance, though his dad abandoned him 17 years ago. Turns out my son's half-sister has a heart of gold and made sure that my son was included in the split (since the beneficiary was simply "the estate") and she was the executor.

Interestingly enough, this young woman says she has no desire to meet her half-brother.

[Midlodemocrat]

7. The exact opposite happened to us.

My FIL lived with us, and died in May and we had to pay the funeral home $10,000 to bury him.

My husband's sister got everything, the house, all the insurance, etc.

We had to move him here because she was abusing him.

Life is great. :eyes:

[ThomCat]

9. I'm convinced that the bullies win.

It's a general rule of history that the bullies almost always win.
x(

[Midlodemocrat]

10. I agree.

The night we buried my FIL, my husband was admitted to the hospital with congestive heart failure and then needed a quadruple bypass.

His sister knew about it. Do you think she offered to pay for the funeral? Nope. Even though he wasn't getting his full salary for the entire summer.

[ThomCat]

12. That's the kind of thing that breaks up families.

I'd never talk to that woman again. :grr:

[Midlodemocrat]

13. We don't.

When my MIL died five years ago, she went ballistic on us because my husband refused to go to the grave all the time and sit around wailing. (she's nuts if you didn't pick up that part)

She wrote a letter to us about how awful I am and what a terrible mom I am and all this crap. So, needless to say, we didn't have any contact with her.

WHen she started hurting my FIL, we didn't talk to her either, but we did play nice during his services. I had the sailor at the grave give her the flag (he had full military honors) and then came home, got drunk and went to bed.

It was exhausting. Then, my husband is in the operating room and she calls the hospital and I am comforting her. It was surreal.

She's toxic and we're well rid of her.

[Cathyclysmic]

11. A story from the bank days....

A young guy had three aunts who all worked for the same company and had the same life insurance policies. The three aunts were driving to work and all lost their lives in a car wreck. The guy received $66,000 for each aunt. The lucky bastard was beside himself, needless to say.