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<blockquote data-quote="mstang67chic" data-source="post: 134085" data-attributes="member: 2459"><p>It just kills me to hear stories like that. Personally, while I can use any money that anyone would leave me, I would rather have sentimental items. Money gets spent but you can always look at that keepsake and remember your loved one using it.</p><p></p><p>My dad had a neighbor that passed in December. Gary was a bit of an odd duck to say the least but he was a very nice man with a huge heart. His dad had won the lottery at one point and shared it with his daughter and Gary. Before the dad died, the original will left his remaining money equally to Gary and the sister. The sister got in there and convinced her dad to change it so that Gary got 1/4, she got 1/4, her husband got 1/4 and her son got 1/4 (Gary was never married and had no kids). THEN she never even told Gary when their dad died....he had to read it in the paper.</p><p></p><p>So last year when he got sick and was in the hospital and hospice, the only people who knew were a couple of friends and the close neighbors. He told everyone to NOT call his sister and made sure his will was ironclad so she couldn't contest it. The sister showed up at the viewing and went up to my dad. He asked how she had found out that Gary died and she said that her accountant told her. Dad said that that was too bad as Gary wanted her to have to read it in the paper like he did when their dad died. Now normally, I'm not truly vindictive but I would have paid good money to have seen her face when Dad said that to her.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mstang67chic, post: 134085, member: 2459"] It just kills me to hear stories like that. Personally, while I can use any money that anyone would leave me, I would rather have sentimental items. Money gets spent but you can always look at that keepsake and remember your loved one using it. My dad had a neighbor that passed in December. Gary was a bit of an odd duck to say the least but he was a very nice man with a huge heart. His dad had won the lottery at one point and shared it with his daughter and Gary. Before the dad died, the original will left his remaining money equally to Gary and the sister. The sister got in there and convinced her dad to change it so that Gary got 1/4, she got 1/4, her husband got 1/4 and her son got 1/4 (Gary was never married and had no kids). THEN she never even told Gary when their dad died....he had to read it in the paper. So last year when he got sick and was in the hospital and hospice, the only people who knew were a couple of friends and the close neighbors. He told everyone to NOT call his sister and made sure his will was ironclad so she couldn't contest it. The sister showed up at the viewing and went up to my dad. He asked how she had found out that Gary died and she said that her accountant told her. Dad said that that was too bad as Gary wanted her to have to read it in the paper like he did when their dad died. Now normally, I'm not truly vindictive but I would have paid good money to have seen her face when Dad said that to her. [/QUOTE]
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