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A Letter About a Price Hanging Over My Head
Here is my opinion. Please consider it. I want that burial account gone. I am poor, and I run out of money nearly every month, and it kills me to know there are thousands of dollars in my name just waiting for me to die. It is not fair. No one my age has life insurance. Why do I have to have a price on my head? My funeral probably won't cost all of that money the way this family cremates everyone, so who gets the rest of that money? And the fact that I don't have access to that account when it is such a burden in the first place when I am renewing my insurance, applying for social services benefits, renewing my lease, etc., to have to try to get information about an account from someone who may or may not be around and may or may not want to or have time to go to the bank and get information back to me by the time I need it. I am an adult. I am responsible for my own money, and if I am not allowed to be responsible for it, I want to be rid of it. I'm sure you and Robb can find some way to spend it, because you have spent it before and can spend it again with or without it being a benefit to me. If it can't be a benefit to me except after I die, I want to be rid of it. Everyone I've talked to about it finds the idea appauling. It is only a benefit in my death and is a hinderance in my life. If I have to be poor in life, why do I have to go without the things I want and need, knowing there are thousands of dollars just waiting for me to die. I don't care how it is gotten rid of as long as I am told how the money is spent and it doesn't go toward something like buying a burial plot for me. I am responsible for my life and if the problem is you and Robb not wanting to pay for my funeral, I will find a way to be responsible for my death. I shouldn't have to deal with that right now. I have no dependents and I am not witing to die. I don't want a price on my head. Knowing you and Robb, you will give me the cheapest funeral possible, and I know this because cremation is the cheapest way to deal with death, and you have done that for all of your relatives. I don't want to be cremated. It is not your job to bury another one of your children. Who is going to be responsible for the money if you two should pass away? And since it will most likely be cheap, is it also your right to spend any money left over from it? Is that fair? I haven't chosen anyone in my life as my beneficiary. Why is it your right to decide? Did I give up that right when I needed a guardian? It is not my fault.
(Letter is incomplete; the rest is lost.)
(Outcome: The money was given to me to spend as I chose.)
(Lesson: Writing clearly and concisely has the power to give you the results you want.)
(Letter is incomplete; the rest is lost.)
(Outcome: The money was given to me to spend as I chose.)
(Lesson: Writing clearly and concisely has the power to give you the results you want.)
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