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Reality of our age...I'm always behind it seems.
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 32602" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>It really sneaks up on you, doesn't it! I'm 61 now ... my dad died when I was 31 and my mom right after my 40th birthday, so I've been without them for a long, long time. I don't like to think about things like that either, and as far as I know I'm OK (for now), but I am determined to make things easier for my kids than it was for us when my mom died! She had been an invalid since we were kids and ended up living with us the last several years of her life. I recently found myself telling an old friend that she had lived with us for about ten years, then started doing the math and realized that it was only <em>four</em> years! It just SEEMED like ten! It is NOT easy! She had no idea about her business affairs and we finally realized after she died that my dad had carried no life insurance on her ... we had a hard enough time just finding her SSN! So now, just in case a meteor drops on me or something, I have things all spelled out for my kids, what insurance I have, what all will be owed from where I work, 401K, leave balance pay outs, etc.</p><p></p><p>I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm not all <em>that</em> old, and in pretty good shape, better than a lot of folks my age anyway. But what really brought it home for me is that just since the first of the year, we have lost three co-workers, all good friends of mine! One had cancer and died exactly one week after he had been pronounced cancer-free by his doctors! Another, a former boss, died a few days after surgery for terminal pancreatic cancer that had only been diagnosed a few days earlier. The third died of a heart attack after "911" couldn't find his house! And all three were anywhere from one to three years <em>younger</em> than I am! It really makes you think! You just never know! I never used to even think about things like this ... but I do now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 32602, member: 1883"] It really sneaks up on you, doesn't it! I'm 61 now ... my dad died when I was 31 and my mom right after my 40th birthday, so I've been without them for a long, long time. I don't like to think about things like that either, and as far as I know I'm OK (for now), but I am determined to make things easier for my kids than it was for us when my mom died! She had been an invalid since we were kids and ended up living with us the last several years of her life. I recently found myself telling an old friend that she had lived with us for about ten years, then started doing the math and realized that it was only [i]four[/i] years! It just SEEMED like ten! It is NOT easy! She had no idea about her business affairs and we finally realized after she died that my dad had carried no life insurance on her ... we had a hard enough time just finding her SSN! So now, just in case a meteor drops on me or something, I have things all spelled out for my kids, what insurance I have, what all will be owed from where I work, 401K, leave balance pay outs, etc. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm not all [i]that[/i] old, and in pretty good shape, better than a lot of folks my age anyway. But what really brought it home for me is that just since the first of the year, we have lost three co-workers, all good friends of mine! One had cancer and died exactly one week after he had been pronounced cancer-free by his doctors! Another, a former boss, died a few days after surgery for terminal pancreatic cancer that had only been diagnosed a few days earlier. The third died of a heart attack after "911" couldn't find his house! And all three were anywhere from one to three years [i]younger[/i] than I am! It really makes you think! You just never know! I never used to even think about things like this ... but I do now. [/QUOTE]
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