Could you elaborate more on that please? Thanks.
Despite it seeming universally bad, even amongst the Indian tradition, there is evidence that the 8th place was viewed as positive and benefic in the early Hellenistic tradition by Nechepso and Hermes.
The summary of Thrasyllus ascribes significations of the twelve places according to Hermes Trismegistus where the 8th is life (βίος) and livelihood.
Death is assigned to the seventh place instead. A contradictory scheme is ascribed to Asclepius in the same source and in Valens where death is assigned to the 8th instead. It is also called ''Idle'' as mentioned, but the 9th and 3rd are viewed as worse in the operative scheme of Nechepso, as apheta is considered viable in the 8th but never in the 3rd and 9th. Similarly, in the triplicity rulers technique examples in Valens and Dorotheus, the 3rd and 9th are worse than the 2nd and 8th.
An important source in my opinion for the popularization of the 8th being bad in the west is Ptolemy, who gives a natural explanations via the moist exhalations of the earth (most ancient scientists believed that the ''space ocean/waters'' are moistened by the earth, and that water comes from space) causing the stars to appear faint and worse in the 12th and 8th. He considered a Predominator in the 9th contrary to the ''Nechepso'' scheme of angular, operative and inoperative I mentioned earlier, that is mentioned and used in Valens, Porphyry, Antiochus and others.
As you see, one source assigns life and livelihood to it, a second source assigns death and idleness to it. I personally do not use the latter generally, but I would give you my advice for the sake of the devil's advocate.
When is the 8th house to be read as Money?
And is the money from inheritance or some other source?
How do you decided that?
In the same way you decide whether Mars signifies ''courage'' (benefic influence) or ''terror and fears'' (malefic influence), or that Saturn signifies ''great ranks'' (benefic influence) or ''poverty'' (malefic influence).
Is the ruler made better by being angular, succedent or declining, is it rising or setting? Is it aspected by Jupiter or by Saturn? Is the ruler predominating the topic of wealth or of life? Is the ruler Mercury or in the signs of Mercury*? Every star and ruler can signify the opposite of its significations when poorly placed, but generally the malefics and the ruler of the 8th would rarely give good compared to evil, and the benefics and the ruler of the 10th would rarely give evil compared to good.
*You always make predictions according to the combined natural significations of the stars and the signs - royal, servile, incomplete, cold and so on added to the natural significations of the stars (like Mercury signifying money, and Saturn signifying land and the paternal inheritance). Not everyone gets and inheritance, but everyone is going to die at some point.