I'm glad that we have engaged in these dialectics.
You just made me realize that I employ both your strategy as well as mine at the same time. I have both a whole life and term insurance policies.
Correct. Term only provides a death benefit. It doesn't build any "equity" (like a home). That equity is called cash value in whole life.
Furthermore, in your example from your original post, the policy was on your wife or child. They must pass before the (death) benefit is dispersed to beneficiaries.
I aint married i was just using that as an example.
But you said earlier that you think i'm onto something breh lol. So then is there another way to do this with the term policy? If not is there another cheap way of building equity outside of life insurance? Something that would give a relative an annual allowance.
Good discussion though i learned alot more