Prayers all this advice is not needed.She's improving somewhat but the doctors don't want to rush anything. How fast people recover or respond to treatments can vary greatly. The ICU doctors were trying to ease her back into consciousness today, but that didn't pan out so they will try again tomorrow if all her vitals are stable enough. Who knows, maybe she will regain consciousness on or before Valentine's Day and I can get her a card or something to cheer her up.
Wasn’t my experience at all. The funeral homes estimate laid out in the contract was very close to final expenses. The last thing I wanted to do at the time was deal with the details of multiple ambulances and arrangements to air ship Mom’s body to her final resting place. The funeral home owner handed me a check the first time we met at the funeral home with an itemized invoice included.
Yeah, I have trust issues and I just would rather control stuff like that myself. To much scamming and dishonest people. People have and will continue to advantage of folks in vulnerable and emotional states.. sad to say that is the world we live in and it has ruined trust with people that are still good business and honest people. I completely agree that I surely hope his wife recovers and this route is not needed at this time.,
Helped that Mom had made all her prior arrangements and I had a locked in cost on all that. Shipping was the only variable I was dealing with.
Sounds like she was well prepared. I sure don’t like seeing folks have to go through this tuff time in life. It’s something we all must face unfortunately.. condolences on your mother also
Sympathy to you sir: But you must locate and read the policy. It could be already be assigned to a funeral home, it could be someone else is the beneficiary, it could be that it doesn't pay until you are both gone. If you are the beneficiary then it can be used anyway you see fit and personally the funeral home would not know if I one or not.
Glad those companies wrote them off. When my mother-in-law died, she was way in debt. Nobody wrote off anything. If my wife or her sister wanted the not yet paid for house, they would have to pony up the money to pay all her unpaid debts first. Nobody was in a position to do that, so the mortgager/bank took the house and paid her unpaid bills then sold the house for obviously not a very big profit.
Okay I need some clarity. What is the difference - what are the definitions - of "beneficiary" and "estate". I probably had it explained to me by a lawyer when my wife & myself drew up our wills, but that was quite a few years ago. My experiences with death are pretty much limited to "tag 'em and bag 'em" when it comes to the legal processes.
I saw post #21 - that didn't give the definition of "beneficiary" nor "estate". I'll google more about it.
Oh - I think I get it. I have heard of "estate sales" where they sell dead people's things.
Thank you! Yes, we have dozens of old school photo albums and many fond memories. If she passes away, I am going to organize them into some kind of coherent fashion so my kids & grandkids can view them easily without digging through every picture even taken related to every subject like they have to do now.
That’s good to know.. keep us posted we can learn from your experience as well
Yes indeed. GON forum is a great source of collective knowledge & experience. I don't have as much experience useful experience as most of the people on here, but I like to help people as much as I can.
