A Guide to Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Death and Money

Bottom Lines Top Dollars

In this episode the Ladies Who Crunch go deep into the dark topic of dealing with death, both that of the people you are connected to in this life and (eventually) your own. Whether you are terrified of talking about it or you’re that goth kid who loves to talk about it or you’re just that punk for whom living fast and dying young just didn’t happen (yet), this episode gets hella practical about the money issues that intersect with death: funerals, wills, settling an estate, inheritance, and that one other unavoidable aspect of live: TAXES.

In this episode Hadassah and LB talk about:

· What to expect if you are the person (or one of the people) responsible for handling “the arrangements” for someone who has passed away

· What options you have if there’s absolutely no money available to pay for a funeral

· What exactly is an “estate” (yes everyone has one, even if that is just your record collection) and how exactly does it get “settled”?

· Planning for your own death, from the funeral all the way to who gets your shit, especially if you want your not-legally-bound-to-you chosen family to be recognized as your next of kin instead of your potentially problematic blood relatives

· Strategies for making your passing less onerous on your loved ones, including some tips on how to make sure your funeral gets paid for

· Inheritance! Both what to expect if you expect to get some and how to make sure you create some inheritance for others

· Wills, wills, wills! Why you need one, how to make one, mitigating the risk of your family and friends getting into conflict about it, and some tips for adding some final fuck you’s (or I love you’s) in yours.

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This episode is part of our second season. We are calling this season "Punks Not Dead and Capitalism Still Sucks" and it explores the question: how did 90s and 2000’s punk intersect with money, and what can that teach us today? What if you don’t “Live fast die young,” but have to meet needs over the course of your longer-than-expected life instead?

Listeners will hear stories -- from “the punkest way I ever made money,” to “the worst minimum wage job I ever had,” to “magic bullshit I did to try to avoid working” -- as well as learn facts about how the financial systems around us operate.

The show is written and produced by the Ladies Who Crunch: Queer femme artist/organizers turned financial professionals Laura and Hadassah, who explore the alternative ways of being that crafted the bedrock of who they are today to understand what they learned - and had to unlearn - from punk in order to figure out their money lives and to understand financial systems.

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The Ladies Who Crunch are Hadassah Damien and Laura Boo. More information about us and this podcast can be found at ladieswhocrunch.club.

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