# My life and "It's a wonderful life"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-and-its-a-wonderful-life/692521>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 7, 2014, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-and-its-a-wonderful-life/692521 "2014-07-07T09:02:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2014, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-and-its-a-wonderful-life/692521/21 "2014-07-20T05:46:14Z")

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It’s okay to get teary at the end. It really is a wonderful life. So many spectacular things happen on such an ordinary level that we sometimes don’t appreciate them. There are people who care about you as much as you care about them too. That’s why it’s a mistake to kill yourself. Money never means as much as you do to those people. They will never fully get over the loss of you. It will scar them horribly inside. Trust me. I would give anything to have my nephew back. Money just doesn’t compare. Always there will be more or less money. There will never be another Michael to make me laugh in quite the same way.

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**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-and-its-a-wonderful-life/692521/22 "2014-07-21T04:33:50Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> Then there’s the murder-suicide pact. Hint: _never_ be the one that goes first.
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> JC: 80 a month sounds too cheap for a million dollar policy. Is that Aus?

Not if it’s a short duration term policy in which the insured survives the term and then is no longer covered.

In any case the monetary unit doesn’t make any difference in terms of whether the policy is cheap or expensive.

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 5:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-and-its-a-wonderful-life/692521/23 "2014-07-21T05:42:10Z")

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> [@JohnClay](#):
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> I didn’t think through it very thoroughly - I guess I was thinking she could find another lover after all she has had many relationships in the past.

Did you just call your wife a slut? :p.

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**Author:** ![JohnClay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c37758/32.png) [@JohnClay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnClay)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2014, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-life-and-its-a-wonderful-life/692521/24 "2014-07-21T07:47:13Z")

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> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> Did you just call your wife a slut? :p.

She said she’s never had a one night stand - she’s had a few relationships though.

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