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One wealthy, terminally ill real-estate entrepreneur has told his doctors he is determined to live until the law changes. "Whenever he wakes up," says his lawy

• logic 17y ago
  That's an interesting take on it. I read it as a father desperately trying to make sure his affairs are in order so his children can have the benefit of what he worked for. My father (a teacher, so not a rich man by anyone's standards) made quite a few unusual financial moves, quietly, before he passed, to make sure my mother was in a safe place financially (who, given the social norms of their time, never really dealt head-on with the family finances prior to his death). The rest of my siblings and I had already moved on to build our own lives, he wanted to make sure his wife was cared for when he couldn't do it himself. That you'd so easily begrudge a dying man looking out for his family at the end of his life without reading more than a soundbite in an article like this says more about you than about him, I'm afraid.