Health Insurance Needs To Be Comprehensive

A good health insurance policy is imperative if you are to avoid a drawdown of your savings and investments. This is what can bankrupt a family or lead to a marriage breakup.You need to be constantly aware of what is going on with the health insurance industry; it is changing constantly. Read more.

Living Wills Have A Message For All

It seems to me that CNN and other TV stations that carry all news formats often are guilty of flogging stories to the bitter end.

Living Wills are no exception. But now the newspapers have picked up where CNN left off with journalists picking up each other's stories.

All you need to know is that a Living Will will make the lives of your family a lot easier if they should ever need it. Read more.

Living Wills Do Not Involve You

This is a story of a woman who had a very independent mother who was felled by a stroke. As such it was difficult for her to get involved in decisions involving a Living Will. Read more.

Living Wills Remain In Your Mind

You've read all about Living Wills, ad nauseam. And on top of that you're also fed up about hearing about them.

But they remain in your mind until you finally call that lawyer or search online and get youself one. Read more...

Life Insurance And The Rest

When you are young, you have to try and provide for all the most likely pitfalls.

And that pattern continues as you age.You don't need to think about long term care until later in life. And you will see here a couple that tried to provide as they grew and their needs changed.

Health Insurance Comes Before Food

If you dare to read what is happening to this family and you don't call your local provider for health insurance, then I don't know what to tell you. No, it probably won't happen to you but it will happen to someone; you can only pray that it is not you.

Living Will Decision Is Made By The Government

Here is a tragic case of a love affair, a murder, a jail sentence, a suicide and finally a 11 year old orphan.

In this tragic case the goverment authorities mercifully ended the life of a woman who was murdered by her husbands, mistress.The mistress went to jail, the woman died in hospital and the husband, apparently overcome by what he had wrought, hunged himself. Now the only child, an 11 year old boy, is left alone.

Would a Living Will have helped? At least that decision would have been in her family's hands rather than leaving it to the government. Governments everywhere have far too much power to harm us

Living Wills Fever Needs To Take Hold

Contemplating a Living Will and doing something about it are 2 different things. People procrastinate because they don't want to face their fears, are too lazy or are too busy. But if you don't do it, or one of your relatives don't do it, the problem won't go away. Read more...

Living Will Questions

Here are some living will questions that you should provide the answers for when doing your Living Will. Besides what you want to happen to yourself, you need to think about your family and provide them with easy-to-access answers.

Long Term Care Insurance Is A Long Term Problem

Here is one of the biggest budget breakers in the country .The provider is unable to provide which means that homes break up, divorces happen, children are distributed among relatives; you name it and it has happened. Call your long term care insurance guy now. Read more...

Living Will Directives

Here is a long list of things that could be included in a Living Will. But remember what the original purpose was in thinking about having a Living Will. If you complicate it with all sorts of issues, maybe the real purpose of the Living Will will be lost.

Term Life Insurance Is Normally Best

Here is the story of a man with a million of dollars in liabilities. What will happen if he dies? If the loans are not insured his estate is liable but if he has nothing they are out of luck. But of course a spouse and children may be in a similar position. Cheap term life insurance to protect all parties is the answer here.

Living Wills Don't Answer Every Problem

Here is yet another twist on your end-of-life scenario.The patient wants to make certain the doctor does not cut off food and drink when he is no longer able to communicate.

You can easily see why some of these issues are causing a lot of grief read more...

Group Life Plans Should Be Read Carefully

Here yet again,is a story of someone who may or may not not have read the group life booklet when she first got it.Medically she fell into a situation where she possibly could not understand the consequences and apparently no one,certainly not the union,helped her.

If you have a group life policy,go home tonight and READ IT.

Living Wills Should Be Part of Your Life Planning

Living Wills have been discussed at length since the Terry Schiavo case made headlines. But there is still no link-up between them and your Last Will and Testament.

The sad fact is the majority of people don't have a Last Will. So why would they think of having a Living Will? Surely the two go together ? In each case you are providing for your future by having a Last Will and the Living Will. You can see more articles on this topic here.

Last Will and Testament Requests Are For You To Decide

Your Last Will and Testament is your own and don't let anyone, meaning your lawyer, try to stop you from having the last word. You at last can talk everyone down, or up, and they can't reply because you're gone!

Leaving money to spirits, cutting out that rotten person, leaving your money to pets; it's all in your hands alone. It's your money and your last will and testament and you can leave it to whom you damn well like.

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Funeral For A Friend Can Be Positive

If you're lucky you'll end up going to many a funeral for a friend. If you don't think that is lucky,just keep thinking about it.

You may not want to go out with a splash like some of these people but it could be a good way to go out in style. And if your family doesn't have a lot of money, pay for it in advance. Even if it's only a few beers down at the local or a round of golf for your friends named after you, you can be the centrepiece for at least until the game is over or the beer drunk.

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Living Wills Are Not Being Signed

Despite all the talk,that is all it is, talk. In fact for this subject the phrase "all talk and no action" was coined. Never was a subject more talked about,with less action following, than signing a Living Will. You can read this article, but take comfort in the fact, that while you say you should do something about it, you won't. If 1 out of a thousand people who read this actiually do something, I will be very surprised.

Living Wills Can Be Needed Unexpectedly

We are still hearing about the tragic Terri Schiavo case when this case comes along. If has been said that you'll never know when people may need their Living Wills; well here's a classic case.

Again a tragedy but again a need. To read more on Living Wills, you can go here.

Living Wills Can Kill

Here is a case where a Living Will, misinterpreted, could have lead to a tragic death. And why we keep saying that copies of Living Wills should be fairly widely distributed. If a lot of friends and family have a copy of the document, this type of tragedy could be avoided altogether. For more information, check out this article.

Whole Life Policy Can Help You Plan

In this article you will see how a whole life policy helped a older woman pay off a mortgage and save her $400 a month.

If she had taken a term life policy instead of whole life, she would have had no savings to invest. So while I'm a very strong proponent of cheap term life insurance, there is definitely a place for a good whole life policy.You can read more here.

Last Will And Testament For Firefighters

Now here's the story of one person doing her best to help everybody who is or could be directly involved if there is another 9/11 type attack.

It is this type of direct action which can lead you to think about what you can do for your community.

Not only health care proxies but a Living Will along with your Last Will and Testament are provided free.

Long Term Disability Policy Has No Benefits

This is a story on which we cannot comment as we don't know the facts, haven't seen the policy and don't know what Great West Life has to say.

But we do say that when buying long term disability policies, you had better be sure about what you are buying. Click here to read the article.