Now what do you think the odds are of you and your wife dying as you said simultaneously?...You're going to plan for that?
We still don't know what happened here.
Yes, if you are worth 10 million or more you plan for everything.
Every will ever drafted for married couples has simultaneous death provisions.
Car wrecks involving couples happen all the time. And plane crashes.
For common people, maybe the dog tragically starves to death afterwards.
The ultra rich should consider these things, and should spread some of that damn money around to avoid tragedies from small possibilities.
If you got $80 million and your kids take little interest in your life, get a personal assistant or two in your daily life.
Hollywood has membership in the Democratic Party as a requirement and even highlights the McCarthy Investigations into Communist sympathizers.
But you look at the real lifestyles of most of them, and they don’t spread a dime of that money around. Hackman spent the last several decades of his life doing nothing but hoarding the money, and now his kids will inherit more than they can ever spend. Are they the world’s greatest people themselves? They don’t appear to be, given their lack of interest in their parent.
But when you turn the TV on, there are all these heartfelt eulogies about what a great guy he was.