Message from God, hijacked!

[swee'pea99]

Cut a long story short, our neighbour Edna, seriously elderly and increasingly frail, fell and broke her hip a few days ago, since when my missus has been fielding calls from relatives, emptying fridges, visiting Edna in hospital, and generally doing what's needed. I mentioned to her that earlier today I went over to tell the news to an old black lady who I'd seen knocking on the door. I'll let her take up the story: "Oh yes, I know her...she's a Jehovah's Witness. I went over later and she'd put one of those Watchtowers through the door, with a hand-written note recommending that Edna read the article starting on page three. So I look, and it's all about preparing yourself for death and the afterlife. If she thinks I'm taking that to give Edna in the hospital, she's got another think coming!"

 

[classic33]

Maybe she's of the same belief herself.

Agree with not showing her that piece though.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Advice about dying:

Make sure your last words are memorable, confusing to your relatives/friends/doctor, or start talking about some hitherto unknown family fortune, and die just when you are going to say where it is.

 

[TreeHuggery]

Love the fact that Liza Tarbuck recommends leaving some money to some insignificant b list celebrity, because they have "always loved them", with the instructions that they have to go to the reading of the will...................to find out that they've been left £50.

 

[byegad]

I found Rockymountain's fortune and placed it in a bank account for Mad Doug Biker, the number is 1......

 

[ufkacbln]

Can be worthwhile making some plans though!

My Father was invincible and never made any form of will or instruction.

He was then taken suddenly and seriously ill... he was given only a few hours to live.

One of the hardest things was explaining this to him and asking him to sign a simple will leaving everything to my Mother in order to avoid issues later.

It sort of "sealed the deal" and that was when we all realised that it was inevitable and his time was very short

 

[vernon]

Both of my parents died without making wills. It's a pain sorting things out.

My father's deliberately poorly documented land purchases in Jamaica has meant that others who were temporary custodians of parcels of it claimed it for themselves and 'homeland' that was to be his legacy to us ended up in the hands of others.

Legal fees would have outstripped the value of the land by a large amount and my father's deception to avoid land taxes saw his Jamaican wealth disappear the day he died unexpectedly.

Sadly my mother didn't learn from my father's death and she too died intestate despite promising to write a will.

My wife and I have wills and our middle child was tormented for five or six years by the thought that I'd bequeathed my vinyl records to a colleague. My wife and his siblings went along with the story.

It remains my longest and most successful wind up ever.

 

[Drago]

A wind up record player? Showing your age.

 

[byegad]

Frankly, not making a will is a form of nastiness to your close relatives. However we have had recent experience of a will not saying what we had been told it would say! Bastard!

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Neither of us having any children, Mrs SJ and myself have left everything to each other and on the demise of the last survivor everything is split between various charities. F*ck the relatives.

 

[Tin Pot]

Cut a long story short, our neighbour Edna, seriously elderly and increasingly frail, fell and broke her hip a few days ago, since when my missus has been fielding calls from relatives, emptying fridges, visiting Edna in hospital, and generally doing what's needed. I mentioned to her that earlier today I went over to tell the news to an old black lady who I'd seen knocking on the door. I'll let her take up the story: "Oh yes, I know her...she's a Jehovah's Witness. I went over later and she'd put one of those Watchtowers through the door, with a hand-written note recommending that Edna read the article starting on page three. So I look, and it's all about preparing yourself for death and the afterlife. If she thinks I'm taking that to give Edna in the hospital, she's got another think coming!"

What's wrong with preparing yourself for death? Mortality is part of life.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Agreed on the writing a Will thing, my mother died intestate and it was a lot of stuff to deal with (there were complications) when I could really have done with being grieving. My father allegedly has a will, but he's such a flaky so and so I won't believe it until I see it, which I might not as he's likely to die halfway round the world and who knows when I'd find out that had happened...

 

[ColinJ]

I hope Edna is going to be ok, but unfortunately, the outlook for elderly people who break hips is very bad. I was on a medical website a couple of nights ago reading articles on my condition and saw some data on broken hips which shocked me.

I suppose that a lot of the elderly victims are like Edna, and already weak so they are unable to recover. It was certainly the case with my dad. His hip injury led to 6 months in bed, a rapid decline, and death.

 

[MontyVeda]

Frankly, not making a will is a form of nastiness to your close relatives. ...

How? As i understand it, if you die intestate, your estate goes to your spouse, if no spouse, it goes to your children, no kids, then your parents, no parents, then siblings, no siblings, they start looking at cousins, nephews, nieces...

 

[Saluki]

I hope Edna is as comfortable as can be expected. I wouldn't have taken the article to her either.

I agree that death is part of life, so to speak, but there is no point in causing upset to a frail lady who is probably in a lot of pain.