TIL that in 2006, a woman named Edith Macefield turned down a reported offer of $1 million to sell her 108-year-old farmhouse to make way for a commercial development in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Instead, the five-story project was built surrounding her house.
She died 2 years later. Assuming she was old and/or in poor health, I can absolutely understand not wanting to move. It’s especially stressful for the elderly who may have lived there for decades. And it’s not like she could take the money into the afterlife anyway.