Is Life Insurance Worth Getting?
I can’t even being to imagine WHY you’re asking that question.
Life Insurance — The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
I don’t know about you, but no chat-up line I’ve ever been regaled with has included the words ‘life insurance’. The words conjure up an image of a middle-aged male, the pallor of his face briefly interrupted by a toothbrush moustache which vaguely matches his comb-over and dressed in brown from head to toe.
Patently unattractive.
The very words ‘Life Insurance’ are somewhat of an oxymoron, aren’t they? Most of us think that life insurance is about our death, and who wants to think about that? The truth is, that while no one really accepts the notion of dying, it is the only certainty in life. Besides taxes, of course. But let’s leave that aside for the moment.
The first notion of life insurance dates back to when the Romans were conquering the world. They were called ‘benevolent societies’, and Gauis Marius, practical chap that he was, started the first burial club. Being a general in the Roman army, he was well into the ideology that an inadequate burial would produce an unhappy ghost. Understandably the general wanted to avoid that, so soldiers would pitch in and pay for the funerals of their dead comrades-in-arms. This concept…
