Comfort Space
Mar02
on 2017-03-02
at 00:01
Too Much Information – an online comic
An old house, a geek, a cute transvestite, a very tall lesbian, and at least one ghost–what could happen? – Adult situations and artistic nudity. Not suitable for children.
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Ah, Helen, who bore you for 9 months, who wiped both your face and your bottom, who let you into her bed when you’d had a nightmare, who held up the seat of your first bicycle steady…. and who dragged you screaming into her murder-suicide of your father and herself because she forgot (at least one hopes so) that you were in the car when she purposely swerved into that phone pole.
Yes, let’s not forget to give dear Helen her maternal props. >.>
Hey! Not every parent is perfect
Remember why Helen committed suicide: so heavily in debt (through her own self-induced stupidity) she thought death was the better solution, and would you intentionally want to leave your child behind to deal with the mess?
Uh… yes, absolutely, I would want any children of mine to survive me… pretty much above any other consideration or desire I could ever have, and followed closely by wanting their health and happiness. I cannot believe Helen took into consideration that her daughter was still in the car when she yanked the wheel over.
Also, though you might not be aware, children (or should I just say ‘descendants’ so as not to imply a young age?) are not legally obligated to pay any debt held by their parents at the time of their death, unless they co-signed for the loans (as sometimes happens when the elderly need money for a nursing home, and their adult children have a good credit rating). Granted, credit companies rarely INFORM grieving people that they aren’t legally obligated to pay their dead parent’s debts; if they “volunteer” to pay out of some strange compulsion to have their parent buried with no financial obligations left behind unfulfilled, then it’s not a crime… and once the check is signed, they can’t be forced to give it back to the family either. >.>
Now, in Luna’s case, I believe Helen’s financial mistakes meant she wasn’t going to get any assets or inheritance (I don’t feel like hunting back through the archives to check) but no one has any right to say she owes a debt of her mother’s that she has to pay back on Helen’s behalf. Hellen’s creditors can seize all her property and assets against the debt, so Luna could be left with nothing, true, but she couldn’t be left with a negative debt owing. Small blessing when you’re an unemployeed minor with no income, admittedly.
She wasn’t actually in debt anyway. She used money that wasn’t hers, and failed to pay off other debts, but those were secured by assets so no debt remained after the asset was taken (and the bank let her sell the house for enough to cover the mortgage and a bit left over for her bank account.) Luna was not left with crippling debt, but she had far less than her father had planned her to have to start her life as an adult.