Life insurance is a selfless act of love

8/20/2022 Randomly Candid 0 Comments

Why does life insurance matter? Renato Vergel De Dios, President and CEO of BDO Life, offers an insight that quite interestingly, people don’t hear every day: “Life insurance is a lasting and selfless expression of love.”

“I have always questioned this part of our wedding vows, ‘to love and to cherish ‘til death do us part.’ Why must one’s love and responsibility to each other terminate upon death? In this day and age, death provides no excuse for fleeing one’s family responsibilities,” said Vergel De Dios.

“But then again, the origin of these vows dates back to 1549 when life insurance was hardly a well-established instrument for looking after our loved ones beyond our earthly existence,” he added.

Love means protecting your loved ones

This ongoing pandemic has demonstrated that despite advances in medical science and technology, there is still no absolute security against diseases, suffering, and death.

“The pandemic has been a wake-up call, a reminder that we are not invincible. We can get really sick, including the fittest among us. Some of us can get laid off as businesses are forced to shut down. We wake up realizing that our lives are fraught with insecurity and risk. The question is: How do we protect ourselves from the unavoidable uncertainties of life?”

The pandemic underscored a powerful lesson on the uncertainties of life. “The best we can do is to ensure that we prepare for the worst. Life is indeed one real world risk management exercise,” he said.

Life insurance protects families from financial ruin when their actively working providers suffer a premature death. It acts as a financial “first responder” for one’s family in their moment of greatest need.

The most unselfish purchase one can make

Life insurance exists to help breadwinners provide a cash estate or income replacement to enable their loved ones to minimize the disruption in their lives when they get sick or pass away.

Most heads of families underestimate how much their loved ones are impacted by their passing—it will be the greatest pain in their lives. But on top of their emotional devastation, family members left behind will have to address final expenses, hospital bills, and outstanding debts—and most of all, the daily expenses to keep the family together: providing food on the table, house rentals, utility bills, school expenses, etc.

The emotional impact will be felt for a time. But the financial impact will linger on until the family manages to readjust and recover its financial bearings.

Small acts of love forge lasting relationships

Everyone is capable of performing a grand gesture to one’s family despite a lack of immense wealth.

How? Through life insurance. Anyone can create a cash estate the size of which is to be determined in exchange for a relatively small token payment each year. Life insurance is the most efficient way to create an estate that one can leave behind. Each token premium payment is, by itself, a small act of love that is reinforced each year.

Protecting the “family ATM”

Every breadwinner is analogous to an Automated Teller Machine (ATM) from where the family draws its cash requirements for its daily sustenance and aspirations in life. Eventually, however, all income-earners will get sick, age, and pass away. This is why life insurance is important.