You can't take it with you-or can you?

The mentality today is that you'd better enjoy your money while you're here because you can't take it with you. Well, what if you can. What if you chose to utilize your money in such a way so as to bless the lives of others or to keep your family together. If you believe there is life after death then wouldn't you want to take your family relationships with you and if money can help facilitate that then maybe you can take it with you.

For example, we live near a family that is extremly wealthy and they have chosen to purchase a great deal of land with their money and now have most of their children and their grandchildren living on their property. They have good family relationships and enjoy a common community.

In contrast my parents had a great deal of land that was handed down for four generations which they have decided to cash out. None of their children live near them and the family is quite estranged. Now imagine if instead they would have allowed each of their children an inheritance in the family trust?

When grandpa had the land he chose to sell it to my father and my father chose to sell it to a developer that has now created high density housing. Dad and Grandpa have no relationship with their children nor their grandchildren. But, they have their money and that they can not take with him! Not that any of their children want money or land but to illustrate that they chose money and land over their children and thus have no relationship with their children.

So can you take it with you?