Loss does not have to mean Desperation

I just finished judging over 40 of the nearly 1,500 total requests that the LIFE Foundation received this year from college age children requesting more than $ 100,000 scholarship fund.

Each year, LIFE is seeking applications for the scholarship program of its life lesson. The applicants submitted stories about how one or both parents have died without life insurance in place (or not enough life insurance).

The judgment is absolutely gut. Each story is unique and emotional, but they all contain basic components:

• broken families
• refused dreams
• inability to stay in the family home
• surviving parents who take more than one job to make ends meet
• siblings are often split up to live with the family
• on trust and good neighbors family to support
• realization that after the funeral is over, the lives of everyone continues
• sometimes there dependency and pain in other family members
• children having to work too early in life to help support their families
• missing children to "grow up" and normal school activities
• sudden changes in Plans
• relocation to other cities to be near the family
• grandparents, aunts and uncles being placed in positions they were not looking
• children, saying, "If my mom or dad had known the problem that it caused"
• realization that life will never be what they had hoped for and dreamed
• children saying "I will never leave my family is this type of situation."
• children, saying, "If only one agent had told my mom or dad into buying life insurance."
• the burden of long-term debt due loan origination students

He does not have to be that way. While life is glad to be able to give some of these deserving children an opportunity with financial support, it would be much better if there were no children who needed the help of LIFE .

The bottom line is that if you have someone who depends on you financially, and you have too little or no life insurance, you need to do something now. Not later. Now. You can start by knowing how much life insurance you may need with LIFE easy to use life insurance needs calculator.

You can also help these deserving children by making a donation to the scholarship fund life lessons here.