My parents have told me they do not have life insurance, they are 81 and 89. How shou...?

I had a $50000 policy that I was paying $89 a month on. Each year I got a statement about what the cash value was. I was 72 at the time. All 3 of my grown kids make much more than I ever made a …

Top stories for Long   My parents have told me they do not have life insurance, they are 81 and 89. How should I handle this? Karen Jacobi, BS(MT) ASCP Medical Technology & Specialist in Blood Bank ASCP, Indiana Univers... • Answered June 19, 2025 I had a $50000 policy that I was paying $89 a month on. Each year I got a statement about what the cash value was. I was 72 at the time. All 3 of my grown kids make much mo... Read more » 5.5K 424   Why do liberals hate Christianity/Christian values so much? Israel Ramirez, Amateur Historian • Answered September 25 I am old enough to remember when American liberals and conservatives were equally religious. It wasn't that long ago. This chart compares religious attendance in the USA for... Read more » 1.4K 744   If olive oil is bad for cooking at high temperature, what oil do Italians use for cooking? Charls Mendinok, lives in Italy (1989-present) • Answered December 22 To begin with, olive oil and extra virgin olive oil are two totally different animals. Olive oil can be classified as "extravirgin" if it has been extracted by the process o... Read more » 329 28   Why do people still believe the Earth orbits the Sun when it's not factually true? Stephen Turner, Ph.D. Physics, Cornell University (2000) • Updated December 17, 2024 Physics education can be pretty well described as a series of lies of ever-decreasing size. Force is not exactly equal to mass times acceleration, it turns out you can push... Read more » 3.4K 526   Now that manufacturing is back in America, is it time for Europe to buy all American? Tony Hardaker, former Business Analyst (1983-2020) • Answered April 6, 2025 Wow, that didn't take long did it? Who knew imposing tariffs on almost every country in the world could miraculously and suddenly open long closed Merican factories (why di... Read more » 3K 350   Why don't British drivers need to carry insurance documents? John, lives in The United Kingdom (1979-present) • Updated November 6 I was involved in a crash, no other vehicles involved, car skidded and hit a tree. A witness called the police. When they turned up he said to me you need to call your insu... Read more » 2.3K 220   Why is my tourist visa to the US rejected despite being married to an American? Matt P., lived in The United States of America • Updated January 4 It is rejected because you're married to an American! Having an American spouse does not entitle you to entry to the USA. In fact, just the opposite! Marriage to an American... Read more » 845 178   How do hotels decide which room to give a guest? Example, I'm on the road, I stop at a Hampton Inn for the night, and ask for the standard king bed, non-smoking, and they have 20 of those open. How do they decide if I stay in room 219, 407, 333 etc? Zachary Stone • Answered December 18 I spent a good 15 years in hospitality working front desk at several different hotels, from a small 52 room hotel to a 388 room hotel in downtown San Francisco, to a hotel ... Read more » 102 7   Was the B17 cockpit heated? How did pilots avoid frostbite at high altitudes? OakTeller, Knower of many things. • Answered December 16 Many had frostbite. It had a cabin heating system, pulled hot air off the engines using heat exchangers. But it was absolute garbage. At twenty five thousand feet, the air is ... Read more » 3K 104   Are programmers going to be just simple workers laborers because everyone will be able to code and everything will be automated? Arlen Alexander • Answered June 21, 2020 Re "everyone will be able to code"….. Around 1965, an IBM VP said to me, "We will need 50,000 programmers in this country by 1970". I replied, "There aren't 50,000 people in... Read more » 1.6K 164   We own 5 acres. Can squatters take possession of my land and build on it? We pay yearly taxes. TBD Cobra, former Retired IT, Engineer, Sales. Not my first rodeo. • Answered November 18 There was a case in CT where property was left within the family but no one visited it for years. A lawyer conspired and fraudulently built a house on the property. A neigh... Read more » 4.3K 255   What field of medicine is considered "ultra hard" by most doctors? Victor Cruz, Former Nurse • Answered January 1 Usually, some of the easiest disciplines are actually very hard to enter. Derm, for instance, is very competitive, not because it is difficult, but because it is actually v... Read more » 737 22 Read more in your feed

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Do a lot of people live off dividends?

I have lived off my dividends for 16 years while I watched the dividend payments increase and the total portfolio more than triple in value. If instead of living off dividends you invested them …

Top stories for Long   Do a lot of people live off dividends? Ian Duncan MacDonald, President of Informus Inc. (2005-present) • Answered June 14, 2021 I have lived off my dividends for 16 years while I watched the dividend payments increase and the total portfolio more than triple in value. If instead of living off divide... Read more » 2.2K 232   Is having children worth it? Bart Schreuder, Father • Updated August 24 I became a father when I was 43. Some people have known they want children all their lives. I wasn't one of them. Rationally speaking, having children is a pretty stupid th... Read more » 2.1K 280   If olive oil is bad for cooking at high temperature, what oil do Italians use for cooking? Charls Mendinok, lives in Italy (1989-present) • Answered December 22 To begin with, olive oil and extra virgin olive oil are two totally different animals. Olive oil can be classified as "extravirgin" if it has been extracted by the process o... Read more » 316 27   Buzz Aldrin has been denying the moon landing as of recent. Did we really go to the moon? Danny Haas, former Retired Engineer • Answered June 7, 2024 Edwin Aldrin flew to the moon on the Apollo 11 mission and landed there on July 20, 1969. As he got older, he grew weary of moon landing deniers accusing him of lying and p... Read more » 12.2K 1.6K   Why is MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell allowed to lie saying that Americans pay for tariffs when Trump says that Billions are pouring in and paid by the importing countries? Shouldn't MSNBC lose its broadcast license over this? Gene Taylor, former Call Center Tech Consultant at Airliners (2010-2017) • Answered December 23 I purchased a new hedge clipper, made in China. A week before the tariffs, I would have paid $150 for it. But Walmart (an American company) had to pay tariff prices when they... Read more » 7.7K 1.2K   Why is the math problem 6÷2(1+2) so controversial? Does it have to do with right-to-left notation? I mean, the answer is clearly 9, and there's no other way to solve it unless you read from right to left, so the answer would be 1. Mark Harrison, BA (Oxon), MA (Oxon), Mathematics and Computation joint honours • Answered December 21 It's controversial because different countries teach different rules. In many cases, the differences don't matter, but in this case they do. Most people who stopped studying ... Read more » 140 38   Why does the B-52 take off without rotating? Chris Ishmael, 30 years as an aviation maintenance professional. • Answered May 24, 2019 Its a direct result of the way the wing is attached to the fuselage. The B-52s wing has a positive angle of incidence, meaning the wings leading edge is higher than its trai... Read more » 1.3K 87   Fatimah Sheikh, Doctor at Medical Doctors (2002-present) • Posted Feb 13, 2025 My husband and I owned a 150-year-old farmhouse that we used as a weekend getaway. One Friday night, we arrived, turned everything on, and went out for dinner. When we got back, my husband asked if ... Read more » 6.9K 512   If cancer needs carbs (glucose) to grow, why don't doctors change people's diets when the cancer is first diagnosed? Shylin Peterson, Party Time Nurse (2005-present) • Answered December 18 Realizing that I was passionately invested in this same question a number of years ago when my aunt was being treated for breast cancer and a family member was actively enc... Read more » 309 19   Why do European people stop travelling to the USA? Bob Jordan, lives in England (1968-present) • Answered October 29, 2019 First impressions count. I landed on a plane from England. The border security guard had trouble with my accent but rather than being polite and asking me to speak slower, h... Read more » 5.2K 449   Why is Linux kernel written in C and not C++ given that C++ is more flexible and one can write C code in C++ as well? Nadeem Shaikh, AI Engineer, Former Full Stack Developer, 10 Years in IT • Updated December 13 **Update Dec 13 2025 ** After 1.5 k Views, adding some more details in the answer Some developers sent Linux kernel code in C++ to Linus Torvalds but Linus told "Stop sending... Read more » 90 12   How do hotels decide which room to give a guest? Example, I'm on the road, I stop at a Hampton Inn for the night, and ask for the standard king bed, non-smoking, and they have 20 of those open. How do they decide if I stay in room 219, 407, 333 etc? Zachary Stone • Answered December 18 I spent a good 15 years in hospitality working front desk at several different hotels, from a small 52 room hotel to a 388 room hotel in downtown San Francisco, to a hotel ... Read more » 93 7 Read more in your feed

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