Who Needs Life Insurance?
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by: ronnievernon1
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 Time: 5:56 AM
There's some confusion over the subject of life insurance and many people wonder why they need a life insurance broker when they're going to be too dead to reap the benefits. The thought of your own demise is one that most of us try to keep out of our mind, but one thing we are unanimous on is the fact that money won't be all that important at that point.
However this line of thinking misses the point of a life insurance broker and can lead to a serious mistake. You see life insurance is not something that you buy for yourself, it is something that you buy for your family. In other words you buy life insurance so that if you are gone and can no longer look after them, they will get money from the insurance company to make sure that they are still well fed and able to go on holiday etc. And then of course there's the small matter of your funeral. Just because you are gone does not mean that the family will not have any financial struggles and instead they'll actually have more – and that's why a life insurance broker is useful and worth getting in touch with.
But who needs life insurance and who is all this useful for? Well the answer is that life insurance is important for anyone who has a family and for anyone who has a mortgage. If you have children then they will be too young to work and someone will need to look after them – thus you need to have life insurance so that your surviving partner can afford to look after them financially and still be around to provide the emotional support they'll also need. At the same time if you have a mortgage then your partner could be forced to move home unless you get insurance from a life insurance broker.
This then means though that an elderly man living alone would not really require life insurance and that's because they would not be supporting anyone. They would give their inheritance away in their will and that would be all.
That though is why 'fixed term' and 'decreasing term' life insurance exists. Here you only have the policy for a certain amount of time, or you have a policy that decreases in value over time, and that means that you can pay the policy only while your family needs it, and even in the case of a decreasing term policy pay less and less as your family gradually needs less in order to survive. It's a great form of insurance that can be tailored to suit your specific needs. Of course if you do want the life insurance permanently then that's possible too with whole-of-life life insurance.
Some people need the life insurance more than others though too, and if you support a family and are a lion tamer by day then this will mean you need the insurance more. Anyone should take out life insurance if they have anyone financially dependent on them, but as the chance of your dying increases so does the urgency of a policy.
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