Term insurance coverage is not hard: You buy a policy using a specific death benefit for any specific amount of time. As an example, suppose you buy a $50,000 policy with a 20-year term. Should you die within those Twenty years, your beneficiaries receive $50,000. If you’re alive at the end of the 20-year term, you receive no benefits and will must buy a new policy to keep up your coverage.
As a principal in an economically troubled city, I learned to expect the unexpected each day when arriving at school: hearing the children buzzing about a horrific incident that occurred over the weekend; checking the faculty list to see the …