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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One of the best tips on selling Final Expense is make sure you have plenty of leads.  Without <a href="http://insurancetelesales.com" target=_self>insurance leads</a>, you are dead in the water when it comes to selling Final Expense Insurance.  Sure you can go door to door like what was done in the old days but having a fresh supply of leads makes things so much more enjoyable.  Now if you are looking to lose a few pounds and get your exercise at the same time you are trying to earn a living, door to door sales may be the way to go!</p>
<p>Leads are expensive, right?  They sure are and the norm in the industry can be $25-$35 per lead!  Many of these leads may be weeks old by the time you get them and by the time you get them another agent may have already contacted the person before you even get your $25 lead…..OUCH!  There are even cases when your supposedly fresh leads are months old not just weeks.</p>
<p>Another route to go is to buy those “B” leads…  These leads are months old and most likely have been worked by some other agent in the past.  “B” leads may only cost you $5 per lead.  These <em><a href="http://insurancetelesales.com" target=_self>final expense leads</a></em> may not be fresh but you can definitely find sales out of them.  Just because someone said “not interested” with someone else doesn’t mean their circumstances haven’t changed by the time you contact them.  In our experience the more times you contact someone the likelier they are to buy.  Today someone may say they are not interested but in 6 months they may have a spouse or relative die that gets them thinking about it again.   So don’t disregard the value of “B” lead.  They are cheaper and in some cases as good as those expensive “A” leads.</p>
<p>Bottom line when you are selling Final Expense Insurance you need access to unlimited leads to be truly successful.  Imagine if you are paying $25 per lead each week and you get 10 leads a week and that’s it.  First of all that’s $250 and secondly you are pressured to sell everyone of those leads to make a living after all your expenses.  When you only have access to a small number of leads it makes succeeding in this industry extremely hard.  Out of those 10 leads, 3 you may never get in touch with.  3 of them may be broke. 3 of them may hang up on you and that leaves you 1 to get the sale.  Not good odds or a great way of making a living.  You could order 30 leads a week but now you are looking at almost a $1,000 per week in lead cost alone not including travel, gas, and on and on.</p>
<p>We know that leads are what agents need to be successful.  Not just 10 leads a week but many leads.  We solved that problem and we solved it to a point to where it’s ridiculous.  At any given point our agents have access to 50-350 “A” leads per week that are less than 30 days old.  On top of that our agents have access to more than 3,000 total leads.  These are not phone book leads these are leads from our proprietary mailings.  Since leads make agents successful, our platform removes the number one reason why agents fail in this business…not enough leads!</p>
<p>If you break down the cost to our agents for lead cost compared to how many leads they have access to, it comes to less than 35 cents per lead!  Do you think you could be successful with those kinds of cost and access to over 3,000 leads?</p>
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By Barry Yeoman, January &#38; February 2008

A funeral-industry scandal that&#8217;s fleecing thousands of  Americans




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<p>In 1975 Audrey and Carl Brewer purchased what they thought was peace of  mind&mdash;both for themselves and their family&mdash;when they bought two pre-paid funeral  plans from Forest Hill South, a mortuary and cemetery in Memphis. Their plans  cost them a total of $1,298, which they paid off in monthly installments of $27.  That included caskets, the funeral services, and two burial plots on Forest Hill  South&rsquo;s 80-acre grounds. The Brewers considered their pre-need contracts as  protection against inflation and a way, when they died, to take the financial  burden off their children. &ldquo;They [Forest Hill] told me everything was taken care  of,&rdquo; says Carl, 89, a retired housepainter. &ldquo;The only thing I would owe would be  if I wanted some flowers on the casket.&rdquo;</p>
<p>The Brewers had no reason to question the honesty of Forest Hill. Its three  locations had been in business since 1888, serving the rich and the poor alike,  including such luminaries as Elvis Presley and his mother, Gladys. Like the  Brewers, thousands of customers from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Arkansas had  also trusted the company&rsquo;s reputation enough to buy pre-need policies. Then in  July 2006, one of Forest Hill&rsquo;s new owners, Oklahoma oilman Clayton Smart,  called a press conference to announce he was invalidating 13,500 pre-paid  funeral contracts, including the Brewers&rsquo;. While police stood by to prevent a  customer riot, Smart explained that any contract holder who wanted to use his or  her pre-need policy would have to pay an additional $4,000, more or less, at the  time of death, even if the plan was already paid in full. &ldquo;Obviously, things  were a lot cheaper in 1965,&rdquo; Smart explained. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t have bought the  business if I thought I&rsquo;d have to honor those contracts.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Officials with the Tennessee attorney general&rsquo;s office offer a different  explanation for why Smart wasn&rsquo;t honoring the contracts. They allege Smart and  his partner, attorney Stephen Smith, drained the company&rsquo;s pre-need trust funds  of $20 million shortly after they purchased Forest Hill in 2004. Those funds,  which were part of the purchase and were earmarked to pay for the pre-paid  funerals and cemetery care, &ldquo;were supposed to be in very conservative investment  vehicles,&rdquo; says Martha Davis, a senior counsel in the state&rsquo;s bankruptcy  division. Instead, she says, Smart and Smith diverted the money to risky hedge  funds and unsecured loans owned by Quest Minerals and Exploration, an  oil-and-gas company controlled by Smart&rsquo;s family. The attorney general&rsquo;s office  says the Quest loans ended up being worthless.</p>
<p class="pullquote">People believe that if they have a pre-paid funeral,  everything&rsquo;s fine. It&rsquo;s a dangerous delusion.</p>
<p>Smart&rsquo;s staggering announcement was just one more chapter in what is becoming  a growing national scandal: pre-paid funeral contracts that don&rsquo;t deliver.  Industry watchdogs say that while most funeral directors operate honestly, the  problems associated with pre-need policies have become too widespread to ignore.  &ldquo;This is not every once in a while, and it is not just a few bad apples,&rdquo; says  Joshua Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance. &ldquo;People  want to believe that if they sign a check now for a pre-paid funeral, they can  close their eyes and say, &lsquo;La, la, la, everything&rsquo;s going to be fine.&rsquo; It&rsquo;s a  dangerous delusion.&rdquo; A delusion because too often funeral companies change  hands, close their doors, or simply raid the trust funds where their customers&rsquo;  payments are supposed to be securely collecting interest. As a result, when the  services are needed, there&rsquo;s no money left. Even worse, because of inconsistent  state regulation and enforcement, there&rsquo;s often no recourse for distressed  families who thought everything was taken care of.</p>
<p>It&rsquo;s not just consumers who are outraged. The funeral industry itself has  warned that pre-need abuses are ruining their profession&rsquo;s reputation. &ldquo;We  funeral directors should never have been able to take money for pre-need,&rdquo; says  Michael Tod Good, a mortician in Reamstown, Pennsylvania. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s just too  tempting.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Carl Brewer, the housepainter, discovered the dangers of pre-need last year  when his wife, Audrey, died suddenly of an aneurysm. Six months earlier, just  before Smart&rsquo;s announcement, Carl had talked with Forest Hill employees, who  assured him his contract was still valid. So he was surprised when, after  Audrey&rsquo;s death, the staff at Forest Hill South informed him he&rsquo;d have to pay an  additional $3,510 before they would honor his wife&rsquo;s pre-need contract. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s  nowhere we could go to come up with that much money,&rdquo; says daughter-in-law  Shirley Brewer. Forest Hill finally accepted $194 in cash as a down payment on  the extra fee. Then, Carl, not knowing what else to do, signed a contract  promising to pay the rest even though he knew he couldn&rsquo;t. &ldquo;We did what we had  to do to lay Mom away,&rdquo; says Shirley.</p>
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<p>The notion of pre-need funerals dates back to the 1930s, when local  morticians informally began allowing customers to pay for their services in  advance. The deals were often sealed with little more than a handshake. &ldquo;It was  a matter of trust,&rdquo; says Ron Hast, publisher of the industry newsletters  <em>Mortuary Management</em> and <em>Funeral Monitor.</em></p>
<p>By the 1980s, as national chains began gobbling up family-run funeral homes,  the industry realized there was profit to be made in pre-need sales. Pre-payment  would guarantee a steady stream of business in the future, and the pre-need  money could be invested to keep pace with the rising cost of funerals. The  companies developed more aggressive marketing tactics to convince Americans that  pre-payment was a gift to one&rsquo;s survivors. &ldquo;Your purchase price is frozen now,&rdquo;  Forest Hill wrote its pre-need customers. &ldquo;You will not [have to] pay one cent  more.&rdquo;</p>
<p>Today, pre-need continues to be big business. A 2007 AARP survey of 1,087  Americans 50 and older found that 23 percent of them had made pre-payments on  funerals, burials, or both. Dan Isard, founder of The Foresight Companies, a  consulting firm for funeral homes, estimates that $18 billion is currently  invested in pre-need accounts. He projects that will increase by about $2  billion a year. This money, however, isn&rsquo;t being stuck in file cabinets as in  the old days. Funds are now invested in sophisticated life insurance policies or  state-regulated trusts.</p>
<p class="pullquote">Too often funeral companies change hands, close their doors,  or raid trust funds. Then, when services are needed, there&rsquo;s no money.</p>
<p>For many customers, their pre-need money is safe. Take the case of Donald  Lavender, 82, a retired city administrator from Des Moines, whose wife, Delores,  died unexpectedly in 2001 while the couple was flying home from a European  vacation. The pilot radioed Des Moines&rsquo;s Westover Funeral Home, which sent a  representative to meet Donald at the airport. Delores&rsquo;s funeral, purchased 11  years earlier, &ldquo;went exactly the way we had anticipated,&rdquo; says Donald. &ldquo;There  were no surprises. It was one of the best things I could ever have done.&rdquo;</p>
<p>But even customers dealing with trusted funeral homes must study their  policies. Otherwise, details&mdash;often buried in the fine print&mdash;can pop up to  surprise at the worst moment.</p>
<p class="box-narrow"><strong>Before You Buy&#8230;</strong></p>
<p><strong>Think it  over</strong><br />Both AARP and the Funeral Consumers Alliance advise against  pre-need contracts in most cases. Instead, consider depositing money in a  separate interest-bearing account at your local bank. On your death, the person  you name as the beneficiary of this &ldquo;pay on death&rdquo; account (also called a POD  account or Totten trust) has immediate access to the money. Just be sure to name  a trusted relative or friend, not a funeral home, as the  beneficiary.</p>
<p><strong>Bring a magnifying glass </strong><br />Check the fine  print carefully so you can determine what&rsquo;s covered. Some plans exclude flowers,  clergy honoraria, death certificates, newspaper notices&mdash;even the opening and  filling of graves. Prepare a list of uncovered expenses and inform your  survivors. </p>
<p><strong>Ask about refunds </strong><br />Be certain the  contract can be fully transferred to another funeral home, or the funds can be  refunded to you&mdash;in case you move or change your mind. Find out if there&rsquo;s a  penalty for canceling the policy or for missing payments.</p>
<p><strong>Follow  the money</strong><br />Know where your pre-need payments are being invested. If  they&rsquo;re to be used to buy an insurance policy, make sure the company writing the  policy is highly rated. If payments will go to a trust account, find out what  bank or institution will be holding the funds. </p>
<p><strong>Plan for change </strong><br />Ask what happens if your circumstances change. What if something  you requested, such as a specific casket, is no longer available? What if the  funeral home changes ownership? What if your family decides on a simpler, less  expensive funeral? </p>
<p><strong>Review your finances </strong><br />If you are  close to being eligible for Medicaid, you can put some of your money into an  &ldquo;irrevocable&rdquo; pre-need funeral plan as a way of spending down your assets.  </p>
<p><strong>Talk to a lawyer </strong><br />Most important of all, have an  attorney or trusted adviser review any pre-need contract before you sign.  </p>
<p>One of the most common complaints about pre-need involves the casket bait and  switch: the customer asks for a specific casket, but when the time comes, it&rsquo;s  not available and the funeral home offers a lesser-quality model. In 1999 Katie  Smith, a retired practical nurse, pre-paid a Chicago funeral home for her  service. She chose a lavender casket. When she died in 2006, the mortuary  insisted that a lavender casket had to be special-ordered and would take ten  days to arrive. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t want to hold up the arrangements that long,&rdquo; says  Katie&rsquo;s goddaughter, Alicia Hill, who reluctantly accepted an &ldquo;iridescent pink&rdquo;  casket. Alicia believes her godmother would have been disappointed.</p>
<p>Another problem occurs when customers try to cancel their policies: many  states don&rsquo;t require that funeral homes make full refunds. Also, customers who  try to transfer their policies to other funeral homes sometimes have problems.  &ldquo;We&rsquo;re a transient society,&rdquo; says Robert Biggins, past president of the National  Funeral Directors Association. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no reason a person&rsquo;s pre-need funds  shouldn&rsquo;t [be able to] travel with them.&rdquo;</p>
<p>When Pat Cairns bought her pre-need policy from a Cleveland funeral home in  1995&mdash;she and her husband, Arthur, 88, now live in South Carolina, but Arthur  owned a burial plot in his home state of Ohio&mdash;she didn&rsquo;t realize she was locking  herself into using the services of only that one business. &ldquo;They gave me the  paper and said, &lsquo;Check this, check this, check this,&rsquo;&rdquo; she says. &ldquo;Stupidly  trusting them, that&rsquo;s what I did.&rdquo; Eight years later, the couple realized how  impractical their decision had been. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think either of us could  handle&mdash;emotionally, physically, or financially&mdash;having our spouse&rsquo;s body sent  from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, to Ohio,&rdquo; says Pat, 82. But when she called  the Cleveland funeral director to cancel the policy, &ldquo;he said, &lsquo;You know, these  are noncancelable.&rsquo; &rdquo; It took more than a year&rsquo;s battle just to get a partial  refund.</p>
<p>Even worse are cases involving outright fraud. Most states require that  pre-need sellers deposit 70 to 100 percent of their customers&rsquo; pre-need payments  into trust accounts, which are supposed to remain untouched until the money is  needed to pay for the service. (In states that allow pre-paid funerals to be  funded by insurance policies rather than trusts, those plans are regulated  separately, under state insurance laws.) With industry profits on the decline,  though, some morticians find it too tempting and easy to dip into pre-need funds  for other purposes. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got this pile of money, and maybe you think, &lsquo;I&rsquo;ll  take a little bit out and put it back later,&rsquo; &rdquo; says Slocum of the Funeral  Consumers Alliance. &ldquo;But, like a domino, that can knock down the whole  pile.&rdquo;</p>
<p>That&rsquo;s what happened in Salem, Missouri, when Jane Spencer Turner inherited  two debt-ridden funeral homes. Rather than depositing pre-need money into trust  accounts, as she was supposed to do, Turner used the funds to try to stabilize  the business, according to her attorney, James Bowles. &ldquo;She never intended to  cheat anybody out of anything,&rdquo; Bowles says. Missouri attorney general Jay  Nixon, who prosecuted Turner as part of a larger crackdown on  death-care-industry abuses, took a less charitable view. While Turner&rsquo;s  customers lost more than $200,000, Nixon says, &ldquo;Turner was driving a Mercedes.&rdquo;  In 2006 she pleaded guilty to unlawful merchandising practices and received an  eight-year prison sentence.</p>
<p>Depending on state law, customers often have little recourse when their  pre-paid funeral policies disappear. Lawsuits are an option. But, as in Turner&rsquo;s  case, if the funds are gone, they&rsquo;re gone. In Russellville, Kentucky, funeral  director Tim Hanna took off in 2005 with more than $300,000 in stolen pre-need  funds. Until then, Hanna was a respected citizen of the town. &ldquo;We&rsquo;d see each  other in the drugstore; we&rsquo;d stop and have a conversation,&rdquo; says Ashley &ldquo;Cocoa&rdquo;  Kees, whose disabled mother, Sheila, 54, had prepaid her funeral with Hanna&rsquo;s  company. Hanna is now behind bars, but Cocoa&rsquo;s family has received only  $32&mdash;their share of proceeds from the sale of Hanna&rsquo;s automobiles&mdash;in compensation  for Sheila&rsquo;s policy, which cost her $3,000.</p>
<p>And big funeral chains don&rsquo;t necessarily offer more protection than the  smaller family-run businesses. In Hawaii, state officials accused RightStar, a  conglomerate of cemetery and funeral companies, of bleeding at least $20 million  from pre-need accounts. &ldquo;Money was wired or taken out or transferred,&rdquo; alleges  Attorney General Mark Bennett. In addition, he claims, RightStar illegally  canceled $2.8 million worth of pre-need contracts. &ldquo;The people weren&rsquo;t  informed,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;Many were still sending money.&rdquo; (RightStar&rsquo;s attorney  didn&rsquo;t return calls.)</p>
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<p>Even with mounting evidence of widespread abuse, the federal government has  done little to regulate pre-paid funerals. Senator Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.)  and then-Representative Mark Foley (R-Fla.) twice introduced legislation to  protect pre-need consumers, including giving them the right to transfer their  policies from one funeral home to another. But Congress never took up the  measures.</p>
<p>The only federal agency currently concerned with protecting pre-need  customers is the Federal Trade Commission. And it&rsquo;s not doing much. The FTC  focuses mainly on funeral homes&rsquo; compliance in providing itemized price lists to  customers. But price lists can&rsquo;t protect customers against pre-need fraud: &ldquo;At  this very moment some cash-strapped funeral director is diverting pre-need funds  for his personal use,&rdquo; declared the industry newsletter <em>Funeral Monitor</em> in April 2007. FTC attorney Monica Vaca says the agency is privately reviewing  possible rule changes.</p>
<p>The resulting lack of federal oversight leaves regulation of pre-need  policies up to the states. A few take a tough stance. New York, for example,  requires funeral directors to deposit 100 percent of pre-paid money in  interest-bearing trusts that are refundable to customers at any time. The only  exception: irrevocable contracts, designed to shield the assets of consumers who  are spending down their assets to qualify for Medicaid. Such contracts are not  refundable in New York but can be transferred to another funeral home. New  York&rsquo;s tough oversight, though, is an exception. Most states &ldquo;operate with a  loosey-goosey patchwork of regulations&rdquo; that enables &ldquo;unscrupulous&rdquo; behavior,  writes Chris Raymond, editor of the National Funeral Directors Association&rsquo;s  newsletter.</p>
<p>Funeral-industry leaders say they support consumer-friendly laws, though  their definitions of <em>friendly</em> vary wildly. Service Corporation  International, a $1.7-billion-a-year empire based in Houston that owns 2,000  funeral homes and cemeteries, insists it should be allowed to withhold and keep  a certain percentage of the cost of each contract&mdash;rather than depositing that  money into a trust account&mdash;even if a consumer chooses another funeral home.  &ldquo;When a customer makes arrangements with us, they&rsquo;re essentially saying, &lsquo;My  plan is to do business with you in the future.&rsquo; That&rsquo;s an implied commitment,&rdquo;  says Tom Reichert, the company&rsquo;s managing director of North American sales.</p>
<p>One might argue with this logic, but then one would be up against the vast  power of the funeral industry, a formidable lobby and a generous contributor to  political campaigns. As a result, state-level reform efforts have faced stiff  resistance. Consider what happened in Hawaii, which has some of the weakest  pre-need regulations in the nation. Outraged by the RightStar scandal, a group  of Hawaii lawmakers introduced a bill raising the mandatory percentage of  pre-need funds to be deposited in a trust account above the current 70 percent.  The bill never received a hearing: it was killed by the committees overseeing  consumer protection.</p>
<p>Instead, the Hawaii legislature passed a bill written by Governor Linda  Lingle&rsquo;s administration in consultation with members of the funeral industry.  Lingle&rsquo;s measure did include some consumer protections. But it didn&rsquo;t increase  the percentage of funds required to be deposited in trust funds, a key point of  industry contention. Jo Ann Uchida, a Lingle administration official, explains  that the tougher trust requirement was omitted from the legislation to stave off  industry protests, which would have killed the measure.</p>
<p>Sarah Robinson, Hawaii state president of the Funeral Consumers Alliance,  offers a blunter explanation. &ldquo;Basically, [the funeral] industry wrote this  bill,&rdquo; says the consumer advocate. Robinson notes that funeral companies and  their lobbyists gave $11,000 in contributions to Governor Lingle in 2005, and  lesser amounts to key legislators.</p>
<p>Uchida insists campaign donations had no influence on the bill-drafting  process. &ldquo;Our usual practice is to try to unveil an initiative with the  industry.&rdquo; The administration does not, however, extend that courtesy to  consumer groups, she says.</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, back in Memphis, customers of Forest Hill are still reeling from  owner Clayton Smart&rsquo;s summary cancellation of those 13,500 funeral contracts  that were supposed to be guaranteed. Some clients paid the extra cash that Smart  demanded. Others, like Donna VanDyke Tacker, 63, were so ticked off that they  went elsewhere rather than pay Smart&rsquo;s company any more money. Just before  Christmas 2006, Donna&rsquo;s mother, Viva, died unexpectedly. Forest Hill demanded an  extra $4,600 before the company would bury her. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not paying y&rsquo;all another  penny,&rdquo; the retired florist recalls telling an employee. Instead, Donna walked  away from the pre-need plan completely and paid $5,440 to another funeral  director in Mississippi for her mother&rsquo;s funeral.</p>
<p>Some Tennesseans wonder why owners Smart and Smith couldn&rsquo;t have been stopped  earlier. &ldquo;Had the state exercised a little more oversight, I don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;d be  in the position we are in now,&rdquo; says attorney Kevin Snider, who has filed an  unresolved class-action lawsuit on behalf of Forest Hill customers. State  officials did spot the risky investments in 2005. But it took another year to  complete an audit, which the attorney general&rsquo;s office says was hampered by its  being short-staffed and Forest Hill&rsquo;s poor record keeping. &ldquo;Sometimes we&rsquo;re  hamstrung by due process,&rdquo; says Assistant Attorney General Gill Geldreich. Last  January the state finally filed a lawsuit to freeze Forest Hill&rsquo;s assets and  appoint a receiver.</p>
<p>Almost a year after Smart canceled the contracts, the law caught up with him.  Last April he was arrested in Oklahoma; then he was extradited to Tennessee to  face theft, conspiracy, and money-laundering charges. He also faces criminal  charges in Michigan, where officials seized control of 28 cemeteries he owned,  after an audit showed that $70 million was missing from trust funds. (Smart and  Smith declined to be interviewed. But Smart did leave a brief phone message just  before his arrest saying, &ldquo;The truth will eventually bear out.&rdquo;)</p>
<p>Now under the control of the state of Tennessee, Forest Hill has agreed to  honor future pre-need contracts, and it plans to refund the additional fees  Smart demanded from his customers. But that doesn&rsquo;t help people like Donna  VanDyke Tacker, who is out the extra $5,440 she paid to a different funeral  home. And there are the countless other pre-need victims across the nation who  paid thousands of dollars for policies that are now or will end up being  worthless.</p>
<p>For Carl Brewer, the retired housepainter who was asked to pony up an  additional $3,510 on a supposedly fully paid policy for his wife&rsquo;s funeral, the  final insult came in the mail. In March 2007 he received a standardized  customer-satisfaction questionnaire from Forest Hill asking him to rate his  experience. &ldquo;Would it have been helpful for you to have planned this funeral in  advance?&rdquo; the survey asked.</p>
<p>Enraged, Carl tossed the form aside. Even today, he seethes when he thinks  about that time. He was supposed to be grieving for his companion of 63 years.  Instead, he was forced to sign away a good portion of his future earnings to pay  for the funeral he thought was already paid for. &ldquo;They get people in their  moments of sorrow, when they can&rsquo;t think straight,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;That is highway  robbery without a gun.&rdquo;</p>
<p><em>Barry Yeoman, based in North Carolina, is a regular contributor. His last  article, <a href="/people/katrina_untold_story">&ldquo;Katrina: The Untold Story,&rdquo;</a> appeared in the September &amp; October 2007 issue.</em></p>
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Having a loved one pass away is one of the most difficult days we 
experience as a family. The last thing we want to do is add to their 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Having a loved one pass away is one of the most difficult days we </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">experience as a family. The last thing we want to do is add to their </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">grieving, and pass on an $8,000 to $12,000 funeral bill </span><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">with no means </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">to pay it off. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Most people don&#8217;t want their spouse, siblings, or kids to reach into  their own </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">pockets, or sell off investments that they have worked hard for and need  for their own retirement and&nbsp;living expenses.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">With insurance rates at all time lows, and funeral expenses going up, </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">the sooner you plan, the less expensive it is, and the sooner you </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">will have the peace of mind of preventing a financial hardship </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">upon your family.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Do  you ask your family or kids to pay your rent or&nbsp;mortgage?&nbsp;Do you expect them to  pay your cable or electric bill??&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Then why would we  expect them to pay for our final expenses??</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Ask yourself, what&#8217;s harder?&nbsp; Will it be more difficult now to come up </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">with $40-$60 a month for a few years, or your family coming up </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">with the $8,000 to $12,000?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Many have procrastinated way too long!&nbsp; By the time we are 65 or </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">older, insurance costs just get harder to afford and qualify for!&nbsp; </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Our age, and </span><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">health condition determine  these costs. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">The time to act is now!&nbsp; There are no free funerals.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">The government only pays out $255 to our beneficiary. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Your family is important to you and protecting them is your top </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">priority. It&rsquo;s always a good idea to look ahead at how they&rsquo;ll be </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">taken care of should anything suddenly happens to you. Now there is an </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">affordable way to guarantee your family will have the cash they </span><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">need to cover bills and other expenses after  your death.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Term vs. Whole</span> &#8211; you decide. </span></span></em></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Term insurance</span> is what it sounds like &#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>it  ends!</strong></span> </span></em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>Most Term insurance &#8220;ends&#8221; at the worst time, when our parents </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>or you reach 70-80 years old.&nbsp; </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>Since we are no longer in great health, and older, our rates to renew </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>or convert has quadrupled , or worse our health condition  disqualifies </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>us and we are left with no way to protect our families.&nbsp;&nbsp; </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>Most seniors are &#8220;persuaded&#8221; towards term insurance, because </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>the &#8220;rates&#8221; are lower. The risk is really on the seniors due to the </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>above, as we live longer, the risk to the insurance carrier of </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>paying out claims declines. </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>Plainly speaking, one must &#8220;die&#8221; before the &#8220;term&#8221; ends, to </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>receive benefits.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know about you, but I don&#8217;t want to have  to </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="color: #000000;">die early just to receive term insurance  proceeds!!</span></em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Whole Life</span> is, what it sounds like &#8211; <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">stays in  place your whole life! </span></strong></span></em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>As long as premiums are paid, this insurance will not end. </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>Cash values can build up, in case of hard times, it can be used to </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>pay the premiums. This is &#8220;very important&#8221; as many find themselves </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>paying for nursing home care, or increased medical bills make it </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>difficult to pay other bills. </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>By having cash value, most companies today allow the use of the </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>cash value to pay the premium to keep it in place without any </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>hardship on the individual and secure insurance for the purpose </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>intended! </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>For this reason &#8220;whole life&#8221; is a few dollars more expensive than  term. </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>The lifetime guarantee, is priceless. </em></span></p>
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Having a loved one pass away is one of the most difficult days we 
experience as a family. The last thing we want to do is add to their 
grieving, and pass on an $8,000 to $12,000 funeral bill with no means 
to pay it off. 
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Having a loved one pass away is one of the most difficult days we </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">experience as a family. The last thing we want to do is add to their </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">grieving, and pass on an $8,000 to $12,000 funeral bill </span><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">with no means </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">to pay it off. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Most people don&#8217;t want their spouse, siblings, or kids to reach into  their own </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">pockets, or sell off investments that they have worked hard for and need  for their own retirement and&nbsp;living expenses.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">With insurance rates at all time lows, and funeral expenses going up, </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">the sooner you plan, the less expensive it is, and the sooner you </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">will have the peace of mind of preventing a financial hardship </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">upon your family.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Do  you ask your family or kids to pay your rent or&nbsp;mortgage?&nbsp;Do you expect them to  pay your cable or electric bill??&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Then why would we  expect them to pay for our final expenses??</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Ask yourself, what&#8217;s harder?&nbsp; Will it be more difficult now to come up </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">with $40-$60 a month for a few years, or your family coming up </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">with the $8,000 to $12,000?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Many have procrastinated way too long!&nbsp; By the time we are 65 or </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">older, insurance costs just get harder to afford and qualify for!&nbsp; </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Our age, and </span><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">health condition determine  these costs. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">The time to act is now!&nbsp; There are no free funerals.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">The government only pays out $255 to our beneficiary. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">Your family is important to you and protecting them is your top </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">priority. It&rsquo;s always a good idea to look ahead at how they&rsquo;ll be </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">taken care of should anything suddenly happens to you. Now there is an </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">affordable way to guarantee your family will have the cash they </span><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;">need to cover bills and other expenses after  your death.</span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><strong><em><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Term vs. Whole</span> &#8211; you decide. </span></span></em></strong></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Term insurance</span> is what it sounds like &#8211; <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>it  ends!</strong></span> </span></em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>Most Term insurance &#8220;ends&#8221; at the worst time, when our parents </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>or you reach 70-80 years old.&nbsp; </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>Since we are no longer in great health, and older, our rates to renew </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>or convert has quadrupled , or worse our health condition  disqualifies </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>us and we are left with no way to protect our families.&nbsp;&nbsp; </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>Most seniors are &#8220;persuaded&#8221; towards term insurance, because </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>the &#8220;rates&#8221; are lower. The risk is really on the seniors due to the </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>above, as we live longer, the risk to the insurance carrier of </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>paying out claims declines. </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>Plainly speaking, one must &#8220;die&#8221; before the &#8220;term&#8221; ends, to </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>receive benefits.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know about you, but I don&#8217;t want to have  to </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="color: #000000;">die early just to receive term insurance  proceeds!!</span></em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small;"><em><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Whole Life</span> is, what it sounds like &#8211; <strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">stays in  place your whole life! </span></strong></span></em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>As long as premiums are paid, this insurance will not end. </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>Cash values can build up, in case of hard times, it can be used to </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>pay the premiums. This is &#8220;very important&#8221; as many find themselves </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>paying for nursing home care, or increased medical bills make it </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>difficult to pay other bills. </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>By having cash value, most companies today allow the use of the </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>cash value to pay the premium to keep it in place without any </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>hardship on the individual and secure insurance for the purpose </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>intended! </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="color: #000000;">&nbsp;</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>For this reason &#8220;whole life&#8221; is a few dollars more expensive than  term. </em></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" align="left"><span style="font-size: small; color: #000000;"><em>The lifetime guarantee, is priceless. </em></span></p>
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