Your 401(k) doesn’t just disappear when you die. Here’s how it’s transferred, who gets it, the tax impact, and why ...

Not for your estate survivors after you die, but instead for you before you die, so you don’t repeat the same mistakes of ...

The Old Age Security (OAS) pension provides a basic income foundation for many Canadian seniors in retirement. When a ...

When planning for the future, many people focus on building their retirement savings and not as much on what happens to those funds after they're gone. A 401(k) plan will serve you well through ...

Federal student loans die with you, but private loans can continue to live on. Cosigners and spouses could potentially be responsible for private loans after the primary borrower's death. Many major ...

Death is perhaps the only thing we are promised in life. And yet, despite how natural and inevitable it is, it remains one of the most elusive subjects in modern neuroscience. Of course, we know what ...

Think your family automatically gets everything when you die? In Texas, it’s not that simple. Here’s who inherits if there’s no will.

Dr. Bruce Greyson can’t say for certain what happens when you die, but he’s talked to many people with unique perspectives: They were technically dead before being revived. “Most who have near-death ...

t the eastern edge of downtown Charlottesville—past the red-brick pedestrian mall with its bookstores and fudge shops and busking guitarists, beyond the incongruously modern amphitheater, just as the ...

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Death is perhaps the only thing we are promised in life. And yet, despite how natural and inevitable it is, it remains one of the most elusive subjects in modern neuroscience. Of course, we know what ...