07.02.2009 5:34 pm
Getting ready to turn 65, and inundated with ‘friends’
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
As far as I know, no one has posted a sign on my lawn or put out a press release on the topic, but every salesperson within a 100-mile radius knows that I will be turning 65 this October. Suddenly they are all very concerned about my welfare. Insurance products, nursing home care, hearing aides, self-lifting chairs, incontinence supplies and a host of other interesting products and services are all being touted as necessary to keep me comfortable in my dotage.
If all of these new friends stick around, I should have quite a birthday party this year. I wonder if they are all chipping in on a great gift. A cruise would be very much appreciated.
Cliff Morgan
Oakville
A friendly bit of advice, thoroughly research LTC insurance. It may or may not suit your needs, but nearly everyone needs to consider it.
If you think that’s bad wait until you turn 79 THEN you are drenched with offers to sell you burial lots, brurial insurance, burial pre-need plans, etc. And, you get offers for insurance that denegrate the $250 gov. gives your relatives at the time of your death when funeral expenses are in excess of $10,000. for an ‘average’ funeral, including the services and not counting the burial spot, plus opening the grave, etc. I’ve developed the idea that it’s cheaper not to tell anyone you are dead (ha) and just have someone put you in a spot out in a field someplace - and, don’t forget the couple of thousand for a headstone!!! They get you coming, and going!!!
Purdy–
Think anyone would be honked off if I went for a Viking Funeral on the Missouri River…. a burning john boat …a little lutefisk … a Norse hat with horns … all for less than the $250 the Fed sends to my survivors……
Probably better for the water than industrial discharge too .
HKChas - I’d go for it - I’ve decided I will have the black carriage, drawn by 8 white stallions (horses, that is), with plumes, New Orleans style music, with all 3 people that are grief stricken (maybe 3), walking behind it dressed in black with white hankerchiefs, marching to ‘When The Saints Come Marching In”, then, with that bogus pre-need plan that isn’t paid for, and only $150 has been paid towards my deep six living space, won’t pay for any of the funeral at all, and my relatives say ‘the heck with it’, and leave me tied up in a piece of old carpet down on the side of the road so that when the state finds me they have to bury me at their expense! I can then rest in peace knowing the state finally did something for me instead of the other way around! I like the Viking idea, too, very workable and besides it looks good on the river late at night with flames dancing against the moon and stars! No need for pall bearers, flowers (too bad Michael Jackson died first cause he could have eaten the flowers), and then of course, you don’t have to worry about the boat you are in because it will go up in flames, too, and sink to the bottom, then the state will come in and sue your estate for throwing trash and debris in the river! Ya jes kain’t win!