Trevor Noah jokes that we'll be paying off student debt in heaven. He's not wrong.

Loans could literally follow you until you die. Fun!
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Trevor Noah jokes that we'll be paying off student debt in heaven. He's not wrong.
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For those of us with student loan debt, it often feels like you'll never be rid of the burden of repayments.

Trevor Noah tackled America's $1.5 trillion student debt crisis and the fact that student loans have no statute of limitations — they can quite literally follow you until you die.

"We hope that's where it stops," he said. "It was suck if you were still paying off your loans in heaven."

"Jesus and Martin Luther King Jr. are like, 'hey we're gonna go ride unicorns, you wanna come?' and you're like 'uh I can't. I gotta work a shift at Blockbuster.'"

Blockbusters are in heaven now, apparently, right next to your debt.

Features Editor and author Rachel Thompson
Rachel Thompson
Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more. Rachel is the author of two non-fiction books, both published by Penguin Random House. Her second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now.


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