Do what you want with it, even if that includes choosing to treat your death as a commodity.
Robert Mannheim was stunned when he found out that strangers wanted to lend his mother in West Los Angeles money to buy her a $2-million life insurance policy and pay her premiums.
The deal got better after two years: She would sign over her death benefits to investors and collect $200,000.
The idea of leveraging the value of her newly acquired insurance into a big cash payoff tickled Selma Mannheim, a child of the Great Depression, who knows the importance of having money in the bank.
It's hard to see how critics have a leg to stand on here, but it probably won't stop them from lobbying the state to put an end to a practice that could actually give the elderly something more to look forward to than fixed, unguaranteed Social Security payments that do nothing but lose value due to inflationary monetary policy.
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