Should you insure your life when you’re young and single?
Saturday, January 15th, 2011Ask a single person with no children whether they think of insuring their life. The reaction will definitely be in the range of surprise and disinterest. It is believed that the main reason for insuring one’s life is having a family and children, who will need the death benefits of an insurance policy in order to sustain the financial stability in exceptional situations. And it’s evident that young people, who do not have spouses or kids don’t even think of purchasing such insurance policies since they don’t really need it. But the facts can be quite sobering if you look at them from the right perspective:
The leading causes of death for people aged between 20 and 34 in the US are accidents, murder, suicide, cancer, HIV and heart diseases. None of these causes can be prevented nor predicted, which makes them unforeseeable – exactly what insurance is there for. (more…)