Lillian balances the economic impact of not working.
Transcript
But at that point, it meant probably I wouldn’t be able to go back to work. Maybe I wouldn’t be able to afford my living expenses. What does that mean for benefits if I’m on permanent disability rather than on the medical leave that I’m on? That means that, although I have the means that my retirement would be different financially, then it would have been otherwise. Yeah, so and I was very hard to stay not all doom on that. But on the other hand, if I died in five years, it doesn’t matter, because I’ll have tons of money.
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