On Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:56:29 -0700, Darren New wrote:

>>> Husband spends whole life providing for wife. Wife has no career
>>> outside the house. Husband dies. Who gets husband's social security
>>> payments? Who inherits the husband's money if the husband made no
>>> will?
>> 
>> If the husband left no will, then that's an oversight on his part. 
>> It's not the Government's place to protect us from our own stupidity.
> 
> That doesn't answer the question. You're trying to deny that the
> question won't come up.

Well, and what's more, it is ostensibly the Government's place to protect 
us from the stupidity of others, no?  So in this instance, the government 
would be protecting the rightful heirs from the stupidity of the 
deceased.  They're certainly not protecting the deceased from his/her own 
stupidity:  The deceased is, by definition, no longer a party to the 
affairs in question.

Jim

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