Cancer Life Insurance Policy
Cancer Life Insurance Policy
When my great uncle Jim was diagnosed with lung cancer, the world seemed to stop. Jim was the great World War II hero of the family. He enlisted the day after Pearl Harbor and left his family and East Tennessee behind to be in the Air Force. He was highly decorated as a member of the Air Force and his stories of dogfights were legendary.
Once diagnosed, he calmly told his wife about an insurance policy he took out shortly after his father died of cancer. He was not sure why he took it out at the time and he really wasn’t sure why he had not told her before, but now was definitely the time. Uncle Jim’s Cancer Life Insurance Policy provided the financial support needed while he fought for his life.
He was able to receive his cancer treatments at the Veteran’s Administration and not worry about using his savings that he worked so hard to have for his retirement. The Cancer Life Insurance Policy covered treatment and time missed from work compensation, but also a death benefit if he were to succumb to the disease. He continued with his treatments until the doctor’s let him know that there was nothing else that they could do, the cancer was no longer in his lungs anymore but had spread to several other organs of his frail body.
The doctor’s gave him six months to live and asked if he was interested in Hospice Services. He said no that he just wanted to go home and be wife his wife. While at home, Jim read over again the details of his Cancer Life Insurance Policy, he had to make sure that his wife would be taken care of financially after he passed. Once he received his letter of confirmation of benefits, he died peacefully in his wife’s arms.