Yesterday, I finished the work I could do at the moment with the passing of my mother and came home.

There are still a lot of legal procedures to be completed, but for now, we are settled.

Aside from a series of funeral-related matters, my sister and I have been working together, and it still takes a lot of time and procedures.

Once again, I am exhausted by the tediousness of "post-mortem events".

I wonder if it would not be so easy to "finish the whole process in an instant with just one My Number card".

In fact, it seems that many people give up on inheritance and other procedures because of the hassle of these processes.

If the inheritance belongs to the national treasury, there are still many people who leave it as an empty house or vacant lot.

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So, I did some research, and it seems that even if you abandon your estate, you will forever be responsible for the management of vacant land and houses, as long as there is no one to transfer them to.

In other words, it's like a spirit behind you that will haunt you (and your children) forever.

This seems to be quite a social problem.

However, if you think about it the other way around, if you just want a place to live, without any consideration for convenience or remodeling...

"There are plenty of free houses with land all over Japan"

On the other hand, you might even 'get a house with land' and even 'get a gratuity'.

When I have to be homeless in the city, the strategy of "a house in the country on welfare (or pension)" has come into scope (forget about the maintenance and management costs).

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Back to the topic at hand.

Ebata: "Gathering evidence for inheritance and insurance seems like it could be a business in itself."

Sister: "That stuff has been around for a long time."

So I looked into it and found that it was the sole domain of lawyers, tax accountants, administrative scriveners, and banks and trust banks.

Well, that's true, isn't it? However, the price seems to be expensive.

This time, my sisters and I didn't want to cut costs, but also because we could estimate the amount of work to be done before we started, and we had a hunch that outsourcing would be more trouble than it was worth.

Most importantly, I didn't have the option of letting someone else take the last cruise of my parents' life.