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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 02/23/2005 : 03:55:10 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Ricky
If anyone watches the daily show, you will have seen a report on a guy who will charge "Hundreds, but not thousands" of dollars to put a rapture clause on your will in the event of the Rapture. I tried to do some searches, but I can't seem to find anything.
Does anyone know of stories about this or websites who will do this?
Actually, it would fall under the Act of God clauses so common in many contracts.
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Rapture-proofing Your Estate Plan
Are there ways to arrange your financial affairs to take into account the things that might or might not come to pass when the Rapture occurs? Could this be an area of law that you may some day hear on a TV commercial? "This is the law firm of Cobbs, Fritz & Santee. Have you rapture-proofed your estate plan?" [Then, a big speel about the Lord coming back, which amounts to a commercializing of Christ's second coming, just like His first coming [His birthday] is commercialized.
I think it's just a new way to pry some $$$ out the Rupture-believers. And I'll betcha they'll get those dollars, too.
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 02/23/2005 : 05:33:11 [Permalink]
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Ricky, I saw the Daily Show last night and the part of the report I found most interesting was when he was talking with a Christian (for simplicity I will use this label) about the Rapture in Revelations.
Christian: "That the possibility for the Rapture was high due to the fact that all of the other prophesies in the book of Revelations has already come to pass."
Correspondent: "Such as?"
Christian: (stammers a bit, looks uncomfortable) "I can't seem to recall any."
I suspect that the Christian in this case was used to making such comments to a more receptive audience where the typical reply involved an amen. Not actually having to support his claim of prophesy having occurred.
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 02/23/2005 : 07:38:09 [Permalink]
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I am a legal assistant, and have been for almost sixteen years. I am happy to say I don't know any lawyers who make such a Will.
I did find this site called Legal Issues and the Rapture.
The office where I work will do simple Wills for a man and wife for $100.00, but many attorneys who practice Probate Law and prepare Wills for substantial estates charge much, much more.
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