If your partner died, you would hope for sympathetic treatment from the Powers That Be. The reality is very different. Let’s, just for a moment, look at the financial realities. Eligibility for Bereavement Support Payments has just been slashed from 20 years to 18 months. Oh, and you have to be married to receive them.
I have been slightly melancholy over the past few days. The reason; my wife and I have at long last employed a will writing specialist and are making plans in case something awful should happen to us. I’m not so bothered by the fact I’m staring my own mortality in the face. It’s the thought
I saw the daftest thing the other day; a website devoted to giving its visitors ideas about what amazing things they can do before they die. If you’re in need of such a service for fear of leaving this mortal earth unfulfilled then I hope that discovering an imagination, not a long-lost tribe from the
