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Narrator: We all have someone or something worth protecting.
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Narrator: A family, a home, a business.
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Narrator: At Canada Life, we offer term life insurance for 10, 20 or 30 years or until you turn 65.
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Narrator: An advisor can help you choose the timeframe that works for you.
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Narrator: Figure out how much insurance you need.
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Narrator: And set up monthly or annual payments.
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Narrator: Either way, your payments will stay the same over the entire coverage term for easy budgeting.*
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Narrator: If the unexpected happens, term insurance can be used to pay debts,
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Narrator: like a mortgage.
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Narrator: It can cover final expenses or help fund a child’s education.
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Narrator: It can even help keep a business running.
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Narrator: If your needs change, you can renew or extend your existing term coverage.
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Narrator: or convert it to a permanent insurance policy.
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Narrator: Term life insurance helps you protect what matters most today.
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Narrator: Don’t have an advisor? We can help at canadalife.com.
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When Katherine experienced a life changing illness, family and her recovery were top of mind. This meant not letting things like financial obligations get in her way.
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Description: A woman appears sitting on a chair in a living room beside a table with a vase of flowers. She looks to the right of the camera and begins to speak.
Katherine: I think as humans we always think it's not going to happen to us. We always think it's going to be the next person. We just, I guess, especially when you're younger, you feel invincible. You just feel it's not going to affect you. It's not going to happen to you.
Description: A white box appears screen right of Katherine with red text. The text reads, Katherine, self-employed mother of two.
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Description: The screen becomes grey and blurred. A white box appears screen right. The text reads, in May 2015, Katherine was diagnosed with Langerhans cell sarcoma. The red text disappears, and more red text appears that reads, 60 known cases worldwide, zero specialists worldwide, 25% survival rate.
Katherine: As we broke this news to various people around us, the people that were, I guess in my husband's world,
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Katherine: which is the medical community, they understood immediately the implications. So they would immediately come and give me a hug. I knew that wasn't good.
Description: The screen becomes grey and blurred again. A white box appears screen right. The text reads, Katherine visited doctors familiar with her illness in Boston and California for treatment options.
Katherine: Every time I would be sitting in the waiting room waiting for my radiation treatment,
Katherine: I would look at who was sitting around me, and I could see that there were people who were struggling like me with these health issues, but they had other struggles as well. They had to figure out how their rent was going to be paid. They were in a state where they could not go to work, but how could they make their financial commitments?
Description: The screen becomes grey and blurred again. A white box appears screen right. The text reads, in her 30s, Katherine purchased critical illness insurance for her family.
Katherine: This critical illness insurance made the whole.
Katherine: process of recovery just a lot smoother, a lot easier. By removing the financial element out, by it being able to take care of that financial element, we could just focus on the whole healing, on the whole finding the treatment plan, going through the treatment, all of that, and just getting better.
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Description: Katherine: I can't believe that.
Katherine: It almost seems like it never happened. It was so intense while it was happening. Now that it's over with, it just seems like it was another lifetime away.
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Katherine: When it's about to all be gone, you certainly become aware of what's really most important to you.
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Katherine: And, I still get mad at my kids and my husband, you know, but I think I'm a lot more patient with the people closest to me because you're just keenly aware that they may not always be there or you may not always be there. So, you know, just let go of the little insignificant things.
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