Today I Am Totally Sickened....

[Jeza]

As some know I live in a cul-de-sac. The road that runs across the top has many houses, from my kitchen window I can see four of them. In one lives a man of about 60 ish. Everyday sometimes lunch time sometimes early evening he gets the bus into town for his main meal. Last night he came home by taxi. At about 10pm I saw the blue lights of the ambulance. This morning 5 cars turned up and they were literally fighting in the street over his stuff. I have never seen one of these people before. He never had any visitors and he never spoke of any family. Turns out he died during the night. Sometimes I'm glad I have no family. RIP Ronnie.

[joggerjayne]

Aww, Peas, I'm sorry. I wasnt trying to detract from your post. Just keeping the thread moving.

My apologies?

:0/

[joggerjayne]

Okay, Jeza ... smacked on wrist.

[Peaspeculiars]

Sorry too JJ, just a bit sensitive about this 'tis all and very tired today. It's really difficult to get across on a 'thread' just how important my parents are to me and how little their 'money' matters in comparison to them actually being alive for many years to come and enjoying life.
I just feel really sorry for Jeza's neighbour and can't understand why family, if they wanted nothing to do with him, would suddenly care so much about his physical belongings afterwards. The mind boggles.
Anyway, night all, see you on the GMEB tomorrow JJ x

[Peter Pedant]

carrust it happened more than once in the seventies
that someone was ready to go home from hospital,
and it turned ou the relatives had sold the house !

[joggerjayne]

Sadly, families can turn like that. Lucky for me, my parents are both quite well, and only in their seventies, which is not old really.

Night, Peas x x

[joggerjayne]

Although, methyl, it sounds like the relatives really don't deserve it.

[tamborine]

Seen so many younguns move into widowed parents house, put the lone parent in care, sell parental home & disappear with the loot. I wouldnt mind, when my turn comes. So long as I'm warm, fed, have wifi & gizmos ;)

[anneasquith]

well . let them take what they want/fight over. people are nasty. at least Ronnie knows nothing of their behaviour.

[TWR]

You can not be surprised by human Greed Jeza, at times the human race makes me sick.

[TWR]

That's the human race C&J, Greed can make the sweetest of people animals.

[ummmm]

I find it hard to believe as well.

[dustypuss]

Nothing changes!

Jesus kept saying, "Father, forgive them, because they don't know what they're doing." Then they divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.

[Hypognosis]

A sorry tale, Jeza.

Kind of self-fulfilling though. They never visit him, so he doesn't feel kindly disposed to them, so he doesn't bother to make out a will, so it ends up being a fight over who gets what. That is -precisely- why wills were invented.

I imagine that the people doing the shouting and fighting do not visit one another, either. They have been forced into close proximity by Ronnie's death and their existing rivalries are only magnified by having property to squabble over.

With regard to visiting, it's a no win situation. Regular visits to a particularly elderly relative can appear equally vulture-like, to the casual observer. So I dare say some people hold back to avoid this. The pattern of not visiting regulary can start when you get your own life established, after all. Especially if long distances are involved.

[janbee]

Very sad, but not uncommon. As you say, RIP Ronnie. They never bothered to visit when he was alive but couldn't get there fast enough after he died. Disgusting.