Elderly Canadian Couple Wins Lottery, Donates Almost All Of It.

Title speaks for itself. I think this story is really cool. Good for them. They’ve given away all but 2% of over $11 million in winnings. And the wife is battling cancer.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101104/od_yblog_upshot/nicest-canadian-couple-in-world-doles-out-lottery-winnings

That is pretty amazing - I guess at 78 you’re sort of thinking that the money will be inherited soon anyway, so you might as well give it to them now and be done with the hassles.