The Law of Unintended Consequences will have fatal results for many successful people in 2010. Let’s say you’re sick and old and don’t have much time to live. The logical thing to do is commit suicide before 2011 in order to preserve your estate for your beneficiaries. On the flip side, many beneficiaries will have a big incentive to murder their benefactors.
Funeral homes might be a good investment next year.
They can gift at least some of the money and use trusts instead of something quite so draconian!