# Death and Credit Card Debt **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-and-credit-card-debt/555606 "2010-09-30T15:29:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 16
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-and-credit-card-debt/555606/16 "2010-09-30T17:38:15Z")
His wife may not have to pay her deceased husbands CC debt, but it’s certainly true that you and I will. I don’t really see why everyone is rushing to attack the credit card companies, when the husband basically welshed on his debt. The ethical thing to do would be for the wife to make any effort to pay off the debt, rather than expect all the rest of us to pay it for her. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/death-and-credit-card-debt/555606)._