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I came across a document today...
It is my life insurance policy which I signed about 4 years ago.
I remember at the time, I was given a choice to opt to have the proceeds distributed according to Islamic sharia law, or to specify a beneficiary to be entitled to all proceeds. Of course I chose the latter option, and I put my mother's name down. The thing is, sharia law was never just to women when it came to inheritance matters (or anything for that matter really 🤷♀️), and my mother was pretty much the only person I cared about really, so it made sense to put it all under her name.. Besides, I knew she was not materialistic at all, and that she would give anyone else who needed money.
But... when I signed this paper, for some reason it just NEVER crossed my mind that my mother will pass away while this policy was still in place... I swear, I didn't feel the possibility of me dying and being outlived by my mother to be far from happening, as a matter of fact, it seemed more plausible than her passing away, and I felt that this policy could actually be of benefit to her.. Even if that doesn't make sense...
I thought it is either this happening, or that I will simply leave my employer and cancel it, since at the time, I had my immigration plan in mind and I knew that I was going to do it at some point in the "near" future. But I just didn't know that there was a third option, a possibility of her passing away in that near future before I get to cancel it. I don't know if four years is considered near future, but if you had told me at the time that my mother will leave in four years, yes it would have felt near as hell.
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It is my life insurance policy which I signed about 4 years ago.
I remember at the time, I was given a choice to opt to have the proceeds distributed according to Islamic sharia law, or to specify a beneficiary to be entitled to all proceeds. Of course I chose the latter option, and I put my mother's name down. The thing is, sharia law was never just to women when it came to inheritance matters (or anything for that matter really 🤷♀️), and my mother was pretty much the only person I cared about really, so it made sense to put it all under her name.. Besides, I knew she was not materialistic at all, and that she would give anyone else who needed money.
But... when I signed this paper, for some reason it just NEVER crossed my mind that my mother will pass away while this policy was still in place... I swear, I didn't feel the possibility of me dying and being outlived by my mother to be far from happening, as a matter of fact, it seemed more plausible than her passing away, and I felt that this policy could actually be of benefit to her.. Even if that doesn't make sense...
I thought it is either this happening, or that I will simply leave my employer and cancel it, since at the time, I had my immigration plan in mind and I knew that I was going to do it at some point in the "near" future. But I just didn't know that there was a third option, a possibility of her passing away in that near future before I get to cancel it. I don't know if four years is considered near future, but if you had told me at the time that my mother will leave in four years, yes it would have felt near as hell.
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