Are you Insured for Death?

Death is a subject which is regarded as taboo in many communities. Many people shun talking or even planning about it unless they are faced with a terminal disease.

Burial Insurance is something which you can consider to cover all the unexpected cost in the event of untimely death.  Everything is more costly now with the skyrocketing inflation rates. It may come as a shock to you when you realize that you may not have enough money set aside for a decent burial.

Recalling the time when my grandfather passed  away ,five years ago, there were so many things that had to be done. We had to book the funeral parlor at the church, engage the service of a funeral manager and inform all the relevant authorities.  Even though we did have a collection from well wishes and the various organisations which  my grandfather was member of there were certain expenditure which we had to pay up upfront.

Luckily for him he did have funeral insurance for seniors The amount received from the insurance payout helped to cover most of the costs we incurred. There was also a bit left over for grandmother to help in her daily expenditure.

AARP.Org is one place where you can get lots of information on grief and lost. There are many informative articles telling you on how you can cope with your grief. There are online  support groups where you can get some solace from your grief. I only got to know that site recently. It would helped me a lot back then to help me overcome my grief.

Are you Insured for Death?

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Hoppity Hop Around the Park

These few weekend we are attempting to visit more parks in our sunny island of Singapore. There are many parks which I haven’t been too or haven’t been there in a long time. It is good to get some exercise as a family on the weekends. We use to go rollerblading before Riona was born. However since  R hurt his knee in a fall and with my phobia of  sustaining injuries due to rollerblading we decided that walking or cycling would be more appropriate.

This week being a long holiday week we went to Bishan Park. I remembered that R and I visited the place more then 10 years ago. I remembered that there was lush greenery and lots to see there. We were rather disappointed when reached there as the park was under construction. The lakes were dried up and they were re-planting the grass.  Apparently only the food establishments were opened at the park and we had our brunch there. The boys did manage to play in the newly renovated playground there. They enjoyed the digger contraption which they had . It really could scoop up sand with the flick of a lever. It’s really cool!!  The renovations at that park would be on till the end of the year so I guess we will have to wait till 2012 to revisit the place.

I’m thinking of bringing the kids to Punggol park one of these day or maybe even to Sembawang Park.

Any recommendations of parks to visit?

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