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Do you consider inheritance winning the lottery?
- Thread starter Dominus
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Yes in a way.
Most people that are rich became rich from inheritance/marriage....NOT working hard or getting an education. This is the sad reality that nobody wants to admit.
My boyfriend's parents lived lower middle class lives until one of his grandparents passed in a terrible crash (his wife died years before) in the early 2000's. After he died, his parents inherited $6 million USD from him and on top of that, sued the trucking company for $3 million (and won) since the guy driving was intoxicated (there's articles but I won't post them). Its a very tragic story but it resulted in an massive upgrade in lifestyle like lottery winning would result in (of course at the expensive of a death of a loved one sadly).
Most people that are rich became rich from inheritance/marriage....NOT working hard or getting an education. This is the sad reality that nobody wants to admit.
My boyfriend's parents lived lower middle class lives until one of his grandparents passed in a terrible crash (his wife died years before) in the early 2000's. After he died, his parents inherited $6 million USD from him and on top of that, sued the trucking company for $3 million (and won) since the guy driving was intoxicated (there's articles but I won't post them). Its a very tragic story but it resulted in an massive upgrade in lifestyle like lottery winning would result in (of course at the expensive of a death of a loved one sadly).
I got an inheritance after my mother died. It was enough for me to buy a new bed with enough left over for a trip to Dairy Queen.
Daximus
Joker Kitty approves!!
Getting money because someone died isn’t winning in my book.
Rickrock
JUB Addict
No, in my book inheriting is not the same as winning the lottery. Upon reflection, I guess it would depend on how close they were to me. If it was someone I barely knew, then perhaps it is close to winning the lottery.
Im going through this now. I am/was a hollywood guy in the late 80s through the 90s. Blond tall brown eyes cologne guy jcrew and the friend of one of the leads tall blond nice teeth tank tops and a dumb fuck. My friend is that eras dumb blond sitcom star and the last of the pinup girls you know, farrah farrah cheryl tiegs farrah brooke shields and my friend. anyway I made decsent money just by chance i lived in Beverly Hills I looked like matthew modine and river phoenix....in fact I knew river. Long story short I was putting myself through school and playing these parts gave me a platform. I always wanted to be liked by the public because I REALLY knew I had something to say since I was a kid. Before I realized I was gay I got involved in a big AIDS non profit and I was able to educate the public as well as putting a face to scary, deadly disease that ostricised gays (as if "gay" wasn't enough back then) even more...the pubic was ignorant, uneducatesd Washington DC losers that slop up filthy pussy or penis...thety always got busted with the fucking worst...from ts girls in bad wigs and a 5olclock shadow...anyway, I was also working in womens advocasy with body image and there is too too thin and theres morbidly obese and most of the time there is NO 10 lbls overweight etc. I slowed down to help family....I got screwed over by family...now I get some of my life's work savings BACK and I'm like....you have to be kidding me. I'm going to court and some family have lawyers to duke it out over my own fucking money!? Part of me want to say take it you fucking bitches....part of me will win and the judge will make out 3 checks to different charites...and the last will go for blood in court and not only get my money...I win this extortion ruling that they owe me for screwing me over every cent they will ever know. so, another was my grandmothers....I loved them and mised them and the money they left me still makes me choke and cry....
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johaninsc
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Willie Boy
BOO!!! Mwahahahaha!!!!!
Getting money/home/valuables in an inheritance is nothing like winning the lottery. On the one hand there is a terrible cost, in the form of losing a loved one.... on the other? "Free money" is given (less taxes).
TickTockMan
"Repent, Harlequin!"
I think of it more as Keno.
tarallucci
e acqua
No.....
NotHardUp1
What? Me? Really?
My inheritance from Mother was naught.
After Grandmother went to a convalescent home with dementia and later a stroke, I settled her affairs, sold the house (in debt) and paid her creditors what I could. We held a sort of lottery for her personal items like furniture, ensuring the descendants all had a chance to choose something in turn. It took a bit of organizing, but I'd be the one in my family to do that.
So, no. It wasn't like winning anything. It did make death less odious when it came, as there wasn't so much stuff to deal with as there so often is.
On an abstract level, I did win having lived with Grandmother when I was a child and a teen and all that entailed. She ensured I went to college and finished. I absorbed much of her regard for her extended family, her family history, her husband's history, and I grew a love of horticulture and of anthropology. Also, religion and faith came to mean more than just creeds or tenets, but a philosophic means of engaging both the Divine and the manner in which man deals with myth and transcendence.
And lastly, I was taught not to fear death or avoid discussing it. To this day, I don't think of Grandmother as dead, but remember her in dreams as a life companion who is still there. As such, I don't miss her, or many of my friends who have crossed over. They do live in their imprint on me, and I'm sure they live hereafter.
After Grandmother went to a convalescent home with dementia and later a stroke, I settled her affairs, sold the house (in debt) and paid her creditors what I could. We held a sort of lottery for her personal items like furniture, ensuring the descendants all had a chance to choose something in turn. It took a bit of organizing, but I'd be the one in my family to do that.
So, no. It wasn't like winning anything. It did make death less odious when it came, as there wasn't so much stuff to deal with as there so often is.
On an abstract level, I did win having lived with Grandmother when I was a child and a teen and all that entailed. She ensured I went to college and finished. I absorbed much of her regard for her extended family, her family history, her husband's history, and I grew a love of horticulture and of anthropology. Also, religion and faith came to mean more than just creeds or tenets, but a philosophic means of engaging both the Divine and the manner in which man deals with myth and transcendence.
And lastly, I was taught not to fear death or avoid discussing it. To this day, I don't think of Grandmother as dead, but remember her in dreams as a life companion who is still there. As such, I don't miss her, or many of my friends who have crossed over. They do live in their imprint on me, and I'm sure they live hereafter.
tarallucci
e acqua
^ That's how I feel about some people who are not physically part of my life, sure sometimes it hurts, but I do not despair as they are somehow there... and I know they wouldn't want me to suffer for them. Something we're not given to fully comprehend for the time being, which yet pacify myself.
Harke the Boeotarch
Dreams Wash Away
...then after fifty years of toil and general awfulness they would decide you were only after their money and leave you out of their will.
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peeonme
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In 1963 my mothr's dad died, we didn't know that she was raised by a step dad. He (my mom's dad) had been in a VA hospital for years and his disability
check had left about $10,000. which was split between my mother and her sister. The $5000. that my mother received would be about $40,000. in today's money counting inflation.
This caused a resentment with my mothers step sisters, they of course got nothing as their dad was my mom's step dad. But, they felt entitled to some, because their dad had raised my mother. I was still hearing about it until a few years ago.
My mom and her sister blew through the money pretty fast, it was not a lottery win by any stretch.
check had left about $10,000. which was split between my mother and her sister. The $5000. that my mother received would be about $40,000. in today's money counting inflation.
This caused a resentment with my mothers step sisters, they of course got nothing as their dad was my mom's step dad. But, they felt entitled to some, because their dad had raised my mother. I was still hearing about it until a few years ago.
My mom and her sister blew through the money pretty fast, it was not a lottery win by any stretch.
TickTockMan
"Repent, Harlequin!"
It amazes me that people feel they should get stuff when it comes to things like that.
My aunt's husband was badly hurt at work before he married my aunt, but got paid after they were married. Some in my family was pissed he did not give them some of his money from the lawsuit. His foot is pretty much black and dead now, but he married their sister so they should get something too. They thought the same when I got hurt. Fuck them.
NotHardUp1
What? Me? Really?
Generally, people who see the dead as sources of potentially free stuff see the living as sources of potentially free stuff. Users are users.
The alternative, of course, is earning income and buying whatever can be afforded on that income.
My grandmother was pretty poor. She barely could keep a used car and have it running. She worked full time job into her 80's for pittance. Yet she never viewed other people's things with envy or greed. Her friends included the wealthy and upper class in town, as well as the poorest.
Covetousness is a vice. She had vices, but that wasn't one of them.
The alternative, of course, is earning income and buying whatever can be afforded on that income.
My grandmother was pretty poor. She barely could keep a used car and have it running. She worked full time job into her 80's for pittance. Yet she never viewed other people's things with envy or greed. Her friends included the wealthy and upper class in town, as well as the poorest.
Covetousness is a vice. She had vices, but that wasn't one of them.
I would find something wrong with an individual who thought getting an inheritance was like winning the lottery. Actual human beings would want the loved one lost back rather then anything they were getting from them after death.