3 reasons I'm glad I bought a $1 million life insurance policy in my 20s - Business Insider

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He bought his life insurance in 2014. If he was buying the same policy today, it would cost hundreds of dollars more every year

isn't one of them. The cost of life insurance tends to rise with your age, so the best rate you can ever get for life insurance is likely the rate you'll get today.

I was approved for life insurance in December 2014 and pay $78.76 per month for a $1 million policy. If I were to sign up for life insurance today, however, I would likely pay a lot more. In 2014, I was 29 years old. Today, I'm 35. While it's morbid to think about, being six years older means I'm six years closer to death. That increase in risk for the insurance company translates to aWhile I love my family, they are not doing any favors for my life insurance rates. A history ofand diabetes pushes my rates up. Since I applied for life insurance six years ago, my father was diagnosed with prostate cancer.

 

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Where are interest rates you clowns?

but you spent 5,616.00 over the last six years ... if it's only hundreds more per year you probably made the wrong choice... at 300 more per year break even would be about 20 years... exact numbers probably matter

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