

{"id":166,"date":"2009-09-03T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-03T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sibha.online\/wprandom\/2009\/09\/03\/may-you-live-a-hundred-years\/"},"modified":"2020-05-22T14:09:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T14:09:48","slug":"may-you-live-a-hundred-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2009\/09\/03\/may-you-live-a-hundred-years\/","title":{"rendered":"may you live a hundred years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">may you live a hundred years ! is it a curse or a blessing ?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>quote from an life insurance agent<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;a policy caters for two tragedies in life<\/p>\n<p>dying too early (covered by insurance component)<br \/>\nand<br \/>\nliving too long (covered by the savings component)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>the first case really doesn&#8217;t affect you , it affect only your Dependents<br \/>\nthe second case affects you the most<\/p>\n<p>so what do you do ?<\/p>\n<p>as long as you continue to enjoy the fruits from trees planted by your predecessors, it is only fair that you cater for the insurance component for your dependents<\/p>\n<p>any financial planning requires an important input ; how long will you live ?<\/p>\n<p>without this input either you will run out of your savings<\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p>will be left looking fondly at the unspent savings when you are in no position to really spend<\/p>\n<p>so, what do you do ?<\/p>\n<p>well, if you have run out of your savings, it only means you have lived your life to the full , so why regret ?<br \/>\nif you are left with assets you wish you had spent in your younger days, then be happy you are leaving something for your successors or for charity.<br \/>\nwhat if the beneficiaries are not worth the largess ? a tree providing shade or fruits doesn&#8217;t judge the beneficiaries &#8230;..so be it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>may you live a hundred years ! is it a curse or a blessing ? quote from an life insurance agent &#8220;a policy caters for two tragedies in life dying too early (covered by insurance component) and living too long (covered by the savings component)&#8221; the first case really doesn&#8217;t affect you , it affect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/2009\/09\/03\/may-you-live-a-hundred-years\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;may you live a hundred years&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sibha.in\/RR\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}