Are We Obligated To Pay For Our Parents' Funeral?
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🗓️ 8 February 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Brought to you by CHM, a biblically based alternative to health insurance. |
| 0:06.3 | Learn more at CHMinistries.org slash budget. |
| 0:09.0 | My question is, I recently had a parent-in-law passed away, and I was informed and told that all the siblings had to come together to pay for the funeral. And while it was very sad what |
| 0:25.4 | happened, they did leave property behind in vehicles, several properties as a matter of fact. |
| 0:31.7 | And so is it okay that I feel like this is not my obligation? Is there something wrong with that, with feeling that way? |
| 0:39.5 | You can feel however you want to feel. Feelings are cool. That doesn't make them true. |
| 0:45.6 | Okay. And it won't have, it may have zero bearing on what actually happens. But yeah, feel however you want to feel. |
| 0:51.3 | Okay. I just, I'm being made to feel like I'm a bad person because I don't want to |
| 0:57.4 | help pay for a funeral that I know there's money there and it's, I guess it's just the principle |
| 1:03.6 | of being told that I, you know, that we have to pay for the funeral. Who's making you feel bad? |
| 1:09.5 | Your spouse or the in-law siblings? |
| 1:12.0 | My spouse. |
| 1:13.2 | Do you all have the money? |
| 1:15.1 | We do. |
| 1:16.1 | Okay. |
| 1:18.9 | I want to know what John's going to say, but I want to know two things before he says it. |
| 1:24.8 | Number one, how much? |
| 1:30.9 | It's just, I was just under $3,000 per sibling, like per sibling family. Okay. There's eight of them. There's eight brothers and sisters. |
| 1:38.2 | Yes. So 24,000 for this funeral is what we're looking at? Correct. Okay. Then the other part, and John's going to say what he's going to say. |
| 1:47.0 | The other part, if I were in your shoes, this is the situation I'm thinking. |
| 1:51.0 | If I had, and I don't know what your relationship was with the in-laws cents. And I'm finding out that our cut of the thing is 3,000, which that's not the case, |
| 2:04.7 | but I'm just saying. |
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