To wonder why everyone is suddenly posting inheritance AIBUs?

[JanQi]

Has this always been a thing? Am I missing something?

I was thinking they were some woooo way of reminding me to get myself off mumsnet and fill in those looming probate forms! Like a gentle nudge from above ...

Sorry to be morbid but could it be because of the increase in deaths due to COVID.

I mean 50,000 people have died, a significant proportion of them the age to have been parents of Mumsnetters...

Corona has come for their oldies? 🤷‍♀️

I think that these waves are just formed by people being nudged by previous threads to discuss their own specific issues.

It’s never a bad thing to think about these things and get things sorted, and if you’re making your own will or someone close to you has asked for your advice then “take what you’re given, and don’t be so entitled” is hardly helpful, beside being ridiculously Anglocentric. Most people in the world would think the idea that a parent could randomly distribute their estate away from their DC quite bizarre.

My old boss used to have a saying about inheritance fall-outs: “It starts with the knickers and ends up about the jewellery.”

Maybe all the talk about covid deaths?

Because the death rate is 25% up from normal at the moment?

When granny died of covid, the relatives began to shout, when we split the inheritance will we get a large amount? (apologies to the writers of when Santa got stuck up the chimney).

Probably because November is Will Aid month and lots of people are preparing their wills and hence having these conversations.

Wow I'm glad someone asked what I been thinking.

Well we are 10 months into a pandemic so l guess there are more people inheriting than normal.

I was wondering too. Maybe it needs its own topic in the legal section or something.

Well, I have no idea what the average age of Mners is, but there are stages in your life where you keep attending weddings because all your friends and cousins are getting married, and then there's another where you go to a lot of funerals because your generation is starting to lose its parents. Maybe the mean age cohort of Mn is hitting the latter?

I remember an older friend of mine, a Londoner, saying that as he hit his late 40s, he'd suddenly started noticing vast wealth disparities emerging in his friends, as some of them started inheriting property worth vast amounts of money as their parents died, and that the modest houses the parents had bought a generation earlier were worth a huge amount of money to their inheriting children.

All I've asked my mum for inheritance wise is not to be directly given a huge lump sum of money, that I'd probably be safer with a trust that pays out over time, because I have mental health issues and money is a trigger.

She has decided not to make me an Executor because of my mental health also. We have been discussing it for years because we've had six family losses in ten years and mum feels reassured that we know what to do and what we would get from her.

I think talking about it is healthy, but having expectations is not.

And this is the second “why so many inheritance threads?” Thread in a week

As well as the obvious increase in deaths, the pandemic has probably prompted a lot of people to make a will or update it, or discuss existing wills with their adult children.

And people seeing the other threads are prompted to post their own.

@BubblyBarbara

The baby boomer generation is starting to die so deaths will only shoot up for the next decade. Plus all the covid deaths.

We're all still under 75 you know!

there are a lot of themed trolls, sometimes with very very niche interests! It could well be one of them.

Or maybe people are just more aware of mortality, especially combined with November being Will month

I made a will back in April, when all of this started. Not that I really thought I'd need it, but it did come to my mind, that I should have things set out for someone to deal with if necessary.

I’ve seen three inheritance threads and this is the fourth thread about inheritance threads.

YAB a broken record.

We're all still under 75 you know!

I'm 60 "ish" but this is certainly the age we start dying more often even if it's not everyone yet!

Yes I wondered this. Given the content of the threads I thought it might be the government policy makers fishing to see if a French style inheritance system would be a good move.
But weird otherwise.