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November 29, 2005, 9:18 am PST

I think you got the better deal

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My mother passed away almost three years ago.  I am the youngest of four girls.  There is me, age 33, my sisters are ages 34, 39, and 40 (I think, on the last two).  Anyway, my 33 year old sister and I did many things for our mother once she became diagnosed with emphzyma.  My mother even lived with me at one time and ended up passing away in my other sisters house.  To make a long story short, my family never had much growing up.  Our parents were seperated but still involved in each others lives.  They just didnt live together.  My mother had life insurance for many years and many times had mentioned taking out other policices so us girls had money after she passed away.  During her last few days of life, my oldest sister, started telling my Aunts and Uncles (on my moms side) that my husband and I had taken out an insurance policy on our mother.  After losing our mother, and cleaning up my mothers apartment, my sister and I found the paperwork about an additional insurance policy, and come to find out our oldest sister had taken out an insurance policy on our mother.  This particular sister was in the process of losing her brand new home and filing bankruptcy.  She had our entire family convinced that I was the evil one when all along it was her.  During my mothers last few days of life, my 34 year old sister and I stayed with our mother every waking second and while sleeping of the day.  Mean time, our other two sisters were taking everything our mother owned.  After losing our mother, we went to clear out her apartment, and the only things left in there was trash.  We were left scrubbing toilets and cleaning up the place, meantime they got all of her belongings.  Dont get me wrong, I do NOT regret spending time with our dying mother, but it was just BS that they went in there and took everything she owned.  Lots of things were things we had bought for her in the past.   

This happened almost three years ago, and the older sister and I still do not talk.  I even see her in public and we dont speak.   

Money does evil things to some people.  It is a shame how when someone passes away people get greedy.   

If you got your mother's time and the satisfaction of knowing you did the right thing you got the better end of the deal.  They have to live with what they did and even though you might not see it that is not an easy task.  You can feel good that you took the high road and did the right thing and know that your mother had two great loving daughters who were with her when she needed them.   You should have a smile in your heart for how you handled yourself and not worry about anyone else. 

  

 

  

 

You don’t need to sit in judgment of your sisters that will be taken of.  They know what they did and they will have to answer for that in the end. 

 
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November 29, 2005, 1:18 pm PST

It really is worth getting over this

Quote From: sarnold09

My mother passed away almost three years ago.  I am the youngest of four girls.  There is me, age 33, my sisters are ages 34, 39, and 40 (I think, on the last two).  Anyway, my 33 year old sister and I did many things for our mother once she became diagnosed with emphzyma.  My mother even lived with me at one time and ended up passing away in my other sisters house.  To make a long story short, my family never had much growing up.  Our parents were seperated but still involved in each others lives.  They just didnt live together.  My mother had life insurance for many years and many times had mentioned taking out other policices so us girls had money after she passed away.  During her last few days of life, my oldest sister, started telling my Aunts and Uncles (on my moms side) that my husband and I had taken out an insurance policy on our mother.  After losing our mother, and cleaning up my mothers apartment, my sister and I found the paperwork about an additional insurance policy, and come to find out our oldest sister had taken out an insurance policy on our mother.  This particular sister was in the process of losing her brand new home and filing bankruptcy.  She had our entire family convinced that I was the evil one when all along it was her.  During my mothers last few days of life, my 34 year old sister and I stayed with our mother every waking second and while sleeping of the day.  Mean time, our other two sisters were taking everything our mother owned.  After losing our mother, we went to clear out her apartment, and the only things left in there was trash.  We were left scrubbing toilets and cleaning up the place, meantime they got all of her belongings.  Dont get me wrong, I do NOT regret spending time with our dying mother, but it was just BS that they went in there and took everything she owned.  Lots of things were things we had bought for her in the past.   

This happened almost three years ago, and the older sister and I still do not talk.  I even see her in public and we dont speak.   

Money does evil things to some people.  It is a shame how when someone passes away people get greedy.   

I also have 3 sisters and have lost both parents. If one of my sisters had taken out an insurance policy on my mom, I would have been pleased that they'd gotten a bit of help in their lives. My mom had some beautiful pieces of jewelry and furniture and I didn't really want any of it. Her clothes (all expensive and lovely things) only fit 2 of my sisters. Mom had put her insurance policy only in my name and my sisters insisted that I keep the money. In the end, I think I got more even though there wasn't anything I wanted.  

Like in your case, only 2 of my sisters took care of mom until the end. One of my sisters actually quit her job to be with mom and my other sister had both mom and my sis living in her home for the 6 months before mom died. Myself and my other sister were 500 miles away and couldn't be there as often as we wanted but we spoke on the phone with mom and our sisters every day.  

  

There could have been bad feelings in our cases also but we were all determined not to let that happen and it's been a blessing because the 4 of us are close and couldn't have gotten through our parents loss without each other.  

You're the luckiest one... you got to spend time with your mom. All the things taken out of her home will never make up for that and even though it was selfish of your sisters, it would make your mom sad that you haven't spoken for 3 years. One of you has to be the bigger and better person... why not make it you? Put that stuff aside and bring your family together in love. It's worth it.. 

 


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