As someone put it "if you don't drive a Merc, your son in law will!
More seriously though, inheritance is the cause of great inequity in society. If someone wants to work for you, then the government takes a substantial wedge off the money you pay them, although of course you paid tax on that money. But if you just die and someone ends up with the money the government takes a lot less, so those who work for it pay and those who work for it pay less. It would be more equitable if the government had high inheritance taxes but also insurance mechanisms for nursing homes etc.
On a related issue there was an article in the Indo about a 96 year old women having a problem with her roof and a Facebook campaign to get it fixed, as "she didn't want to burden her family". Yet some collection of people within that family will inherit that house, one inside the canals in Dublin which might be worth quite a bit, and will inherit in the next few years one imagines, but they wouldn't fix the roof but found a kind (or perhaps foolish) person to do it as a pro bono.