Death, Sex & Money - Your Inheritance Stories: When Death, Family and Money Mix
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Over the past few months, we’ve been collecting your stories about inheritance, from those who have it and those who don’t. You told us about when inheritance was a surprise, when it felt like a control tactic, a safety net, an expression of love, or an opportunity to redistribute generational wealth.
In this episode, Anna talks to four people about their inheritance experiences: Gwynn, who is grappling with whether or not to faithfully execute her mother’s will, and cut her sister out; Trevor, who received inheritance from his father and, with it, a mystery about how long his father had been planning his death; and Anna talks to two young people who want to give away their inherited wealth to social causes, despite some opposition from family members.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Anna. This episode is about inheritance, which means we talk about families and deaths |
| 0:06.5 | and families, including I want to let you know a story about suicide. I think you can sum it up to say |
| 0:13.9 | my family's Achilles' heel was money and the desire for money and the need for money and the belief |
| 0:23.0 | that the one who held the money held the power. |
| 0:29.7 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:34.6 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm going to sail. |
| 0:48.5 | And I came home for the funeral and my mom said, sit down. |
| 0:55.9 | We have a surprise for you. |
| 0:57.8 | I was about to inherit $25,000. |
| 1:01.6 | We've been collecting your stories about inheritance. |
| 1:05.6 | I inherited about $250,000, which I used to help buy a business that I own now. |
| 1:12.1 | About $10,000 from my mom a couple years back. |
| 1:16.2 | Maybe $150,000? Between $150,000 and $200,000, somewhere around there. |
| 1:21.7 | You told us about the big stuff. |
| 1:23.9 | An incredible inheritance, including a house in France, and the small stuff. |
| 1:30.7 | I did get a shoehorn that I still use today. And how it feels like an entirely unique category |
| 1:39.3 | of money. I feel like I haven't done anything to earn this. Shame that I've somehow cheated my way onto the home ownership ladder. |
| 1:47.8 | Because it's attached to death. |
| 1:50.2 | It's attached to the deaths of people I care very deeply about. |
| 1:54.0 | She had what most of her life talking about, oh, how I'm going to change my will and all this. |
| 1:58.8 | I'm like, girl, who's studying your will? |
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