The longer we live, the more we waste our children’s inheritance, says Mary Kenny
I’m too much of a Catholic convent girl to be persuaded by the arguments favouring euthanasia – now called ‘assisted dying’. But if I were to be tempted by the campaign advanced so successfully by Esther Rantzen, the point that might lure me is money. Before you go on holiday, it seems sensible to revise your will, in case you snuff it on some foreign shore. I duly revised mine recently. It occurred to me that the longer we live, the more likely we are to use up the little pot of deposits that might have gone to our heirs and successors. That’s unless we have been prudent and planned properly for the last years of life – a description that doesn’t fit those of us who have spent our youth in reckless abandon. Andrew Carnegie, the magnate and benefactor, said that to die rich is to die disgraced –...
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