| Home > Finance >  Life Insurance > Why we need Life Insurance 5 Reasons you need Life  Insurance If you are a young man reading this thinking life  insurance is the last thing in the world you need right now, the following are  5 reasons why you could not be more wrong as to why you need to take out a life  insurance policy today!
 1. Parents
 As well as providing us with the necessities in  life, earning a wage also allows us certainly luxurious in life.  Unfortunately, once we retire, our pensions  are rarely enough to continue living life in the manner we have become used to  while we earned a salary.  In order to  offset this dramatic change in lifestyle, many children help their parents by  giving them money to tide them over.   However, if you were to die today, who would look after your parents in  the future – the government?  Having your  parents named as beneficiaries under a life insurance policy could mean the  difference between them enjoying the remaining years of their life and  struggling once you have gone.
 2. Spouse
 If you are married, even if both of you are  working, chances are you are living an expensive life.  Most likely you have a mortgage, car  repayments, and possibly loan repayments.   You most probably like to go on holiday once a year too.  However, what will happen to your spouse if  anything happens to you and you are not insured?  For sure they are going to have a dramatic  change in their life, and it won’t all be down to the fact that you are no  longer here.
 3. Children
 If you have children then they are possibly the  biggest reason why you should have life insurance.  Children are dependent on us to buy them food  and clothing.  Children need money from  us to survive.  Children need us to pay  for their university education.  All of  these become immensely more difficult to provide for if you die without life  insurance.  Would you really want your  children to suffer because you don’t want to pay a very affordable premium  today?
 4. Pension
 With a whole life insurance policy you can start to  save money for when you retire.  Due to  the compounding nature of interest, the earlier you start the bigger the nest  egg you’ll have.  So, if you are happy  with the idea of living off a government pension when you retire – fine.  Otherwise, think about getting insured!
 5. Funeral costs
 Today’s funeral costs are exorbitant!  If you die and do not have an insurance  policy someone else will have to be responsible for paying the very high cost  of your funeral.  On the other hand, if  you have a life insurance policy, you can arrange the funeral party of your  choice.
 
 
          
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