Help Me Retire: I’m 52, single with no kids and only $190,000 in 401(k) assets. ‘I don’t want to die alone and forgotten in my home.’ What should I do?

Hello.

I’m 52 years old and in generally good health, single, no children. I was an emancipated minor so I didn’t get the best start in life. I subsequently went into IT and got caught up in the dot-com bubble bursting and was laid off three times in three years as one after another company wiped their IT departments out between 2000 and 2003. 

Despite…