He Decided To Donate His Deceased Daughter’s $120,000 College Fund To Charity Instead Of Helping His Estranged Son Pay For College
About five years ago, this 48-year-old man’s wife passed away. So, for a while, it was just him and his daughter.
But, last year, he tragically lost his daughter, too. She was only 21-years-old and passed away due to a rare medical condition.
It’s also important to note that she was in college at the time, which was being paid for by her college fund. He and his wife had started the fund when their daughter was younger, but since she was unable to complete her studies, there was about $120,000 left over after her passing.
Now, he does have one other child– a 24-year-old son. However, he and his son’s relationship has been strained for the past six years.
Apparently, his son became close with the wrong crowd, started doing drugs, and wound up committing several crimes.
“When my son turned 18, after multiple attempts to help him, I had to kick him out of the house,” he recalled.
“It was the hardest decision I’ve ever made.”
More recently, though, his son has reached out again and claimed to have gotten his life together. His son is reportedly clean now, has gotten a job, and now wants to attend college.
But, there is a catch– his son would like to use the rest of his daughter’s college fund to pay for the tuition.
Andreshkova Nastya – stock.adobe.com- illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
He has one main issue with this, too. Apparently, before his daughter passed away, she gave him instructions on what to do with the money.
“In her last days, she expressed a desire for the money to go to a specific charity that supports research into her condition,” he explained.
And since this was his daughter’s dying wish, he decided to honor it. He ultimately donated the entire college fund– worth $120,000– to the charity about two weeks ago.
Afterward, he told his son about what he did with the money. But, if you couldn’t have guessed, his son was absolutely furious.
“My son claims that I’ve chosen a ‘dead daughter’ over him and that I never cared about him at all,” he vented.
His family members are divided over the issue, too. Some believe that he made the right decision by honoring his daughter’s wishes; meanwhile, others think that she should have just given his son a second chance.
So now, he is feeling extremely conflicted and has been left wondering whether donating the college fund instead of giving it to his son was really the wrong thing to do.
Do you think he did the right thing by honoring his daughter’s dying wish? Or did his son deserve a second chance? What would you have done if you were in his shoes?
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