It doesn't matter if they are small individually, DB pensions have no costs for your pot and if they are decent schemes they will have some reasonable inflation protection and widow's (and dependants?) pension.
If you commute 25% to take as tax free lump sum, remember you can usually do that without commuting the widow's pension - so she'd still get half of what you would have got, if you know what I mean.
The core of my pension income is couple of DB ones that would be just about enough to get by on and with reasonable inflation protection on those I sleep a bit easier.
Not advice of course.
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