My friend died and his "friends" are evil

[DFW]

21. There are just some really horrible people out there

And there's nothing we can do about it.

When it was time to divide up our parents' estate, we (my brother, ma sister and I) sat down, wnet through a list of their assets that my brother, the executor, had compiled, and divided the pieces up as best we could so that everyone came out equally. The last theing we wanted was to wreck our family relationship for the rest of our lives. We sent all the relatives away until we were done, and it took a few hours. Several years later, when it turned out that one piece of art, worth a few hundred dollars when my dad had inherited it from his mom in 1966, and since passed on to me, went way up in value, and I got a big offer for it, I made sure my siblings shared big in my windfall after taxes, and for the same reason--money would NOT be the reason for bad blood that we could never get rid of.

It doesn't matter if it's family or friends, arguing and fighting over the scraps of someone's material legacy is one of the basest forms of human behavior. I'm glad that the one time I had to be a part of it, we all came to the table peacefully and left just as peacefully. I would have been depressed for life if we had fallen out over material possessions or what money there was.