You can't take it with you when you die? Don't tell these greedy corksuckers

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/25925/Millions-Paid-to-Dead-CEOs-Outrage-Over-'Golden-Coffins'?tickers=CMCSA,NBR,SGR,OXY

If you think "golden parachutes" for CEOs are scandalous, then brace yourself for the latest outrage: "golden coffins."

Yes, that's right. It's not enough that American CEOs get paid gigantic sums, many are also due to collect huge severance packages after they die, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Among the more outrageous posthumous packages:

* $298.1 million for Comcast CEO Brian Roberts
* $288 million for Nabors CEO Eugene Isenberg
* $115.6 million for Occidental CEO Ray Irani
* $17 million for Shaw Group CEO J.M. Bernhard to not compete with the firm after he dies

 

Maybe it's just me, but those sound more like motives than contract incentives.

 

They still can't take it with them.

 

Maybe I'm missing something here, but if he's dead how in the hell can he compete with the firm?

 

If you look at how so many of our businesses are going down the tubes, I think spending hundreds of millions of dollars on dead CEOs is a good, practical investment.

 

If Bernhard CAN compete from the beyond, I think he should break the contract. In what jurisdiction is Shaw gonna sue him?

 

Corksuckers?

 

It's some kinda baseball player

 

Probably can't go to his backhand or hit behind the runner, though.

 

Sammy Sosa.

 

He had lips like a wine bottle.

 

Wonder if it means his heirs can't compete?