A better question, do you want your things to go to those you care about and have your family looked after?

• Yes? A will and good estate planning will help ensure this happens.

If you have good estate planning, it often means I can do better insurance planning for you. This often means you insure less and pay a lower premium.

They say all is fair in love and war. 

And it was first said by Miguel de Cervantes who made the comparison in 1604 in Don Quixote when he wrote, "Love and war are all one . . . Which was translated from the original Spanish used.

Variations have been used since, though it was not until 1850 that we saw the exact phrasing we know today.

Frank Smedley wrote in his novel, Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil:

One of the things that regularly comes up with the discussion on risk is estate planning. This post is the first of a three-part legal series from the team at Legal Beagle to outline the considerations on estate planning that might apply to you.

It seems there is plenty to write about this week. 

Russell Hutchison has said the following on his blog moneyblog this week.

An Australian man whose daughter went to live in Syria claims she did nothing wrong by going there, and was misled into the venture which was supposed to be for humanitarian purposes. Headlines describe her as a "Jihadist." But her motivation is not the point as far as the insurance claim is concerned.

I was reading a policy working recently and it had a definition of death in it that I found humorous. Not that dying is humorous but the way it was written was.

Death/Dies - Means irreversibly dead with no possibility of resuscitation.

It was along the lines of doh! yeah already, it’s life cover, you’re dead it pays, what’s hard about that.

Thinking about it, we’ve had stories reported in the media about people being pronounced dead, then waking up in the morgue or the autopsy table, some hours/days later.

If you are a regular reader of my blog you will have come to realise that there more to life insurance than just having a policy, dying and getting some money.

I have touched on this subject in other posts; this is another post that explores this much more deeply. Level premiums are a somewhat lesser used but potentially considerable part of your insurance planning.

This is where as an adviser, I’ve sat down across the table and the eye’s have rolled, saying here we go again.

You know what, it probably is a good idea, she has been thinking what if?

Especially 'what if you're not here?'