postmortem thoughts

[calimac]

1. It's true I accumulate a lot of stuff of no interest to anyone but me. But here's two things I don't keep:
i) old grocery/sundry shopping receipts after the credit bill has come
ii) expired credit cards

2. If you phone up Medicare, and the robotic voice asks you to state the reason for your call, and you reply, "Death of beneficiary," the robotic voice will express its condolences for your loss. I don't know whether to be touched or creeped out.

3. I apologize if this one creeps you out, but I found on the day that spending an hour in a nursing facility bedroom with a dead body that had been dear to me, and only a hospice volunteer for company, waiting for the van to come (to borrow a phrase), did not bother me. But 20 minutes of listening to the television of the patient in the other half of the room emit an infomercial for carpet cleaner was more than I could bear.

Comments

[kalimac.livejournal.com]

Lawyers charge enough as it is for the bits that only lawyers can do. No point in paying them even more to do things we can do, and which we know more about the details of than they do, so we'd have to spend the same time explaining the details to them that we could otherwise spend actually doing them.

In fact the lawyers specifically told me to check the valuations myself. Even they thought it would be more than silly for them to do it.