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Friday, August 12, 2005

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Living in Denial

If you make an estate plan, you can go whitlin' pa

If you avoid thinking about death, could that lead to the demise of your family's financial livelihood? A new study suggests it might. Economics professor Joel Slemrod tells Kai why a fear of going six feet under might -- inadvertently -- deep six the importance of estate planning.

If you make an estate plan, you can go whitlin' past the graveyeard. (Ben Radlinksi via Flickr)

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