eg if you were offered 200 million dollars, but if you took that money your life would end in 15 years, would you accept?

3/29/2012 5:49:57 PM

Yes

3/29/2012 5:51:07 PM

no

3/29/2012 5:52:38 PM

id maybe let them take 15 years off the end, but hell no to death in my 40s.

3/29/2012 5:52:45 PM

Meh, I am expecting my 45-65 years to be the best years of my life.

3/29/2012 5:52:53 PM

If that means i make it to 70, then yes.

3/29/2012 6:25:19 PM

fuck yeah

3/29/2012 6:26:46 PM

How does it end?

3/29/2012 6:30:53 PM

hell no.

3/29/2012 7:49:52 PM

If I was a single guy then yes I would. Now I would start to lean more towards no though.

3/29/2012 7:52:18 PM

Make it 100 million and 25 years and we have a deal

3/29/2012 8:00:21 PM

3/29/2012 8:03:13 PM

Similar concept: micromorts

Quote :

"A micromort is a unit of risk measuring a one-in-a-million probability of death (from micro- and mortality)... In application of micromorts is measuring the value that humans place on risk: for example, one can consider the amount of money one would have to pay a person to get him or her to accept a one-in-a-million chance of death (or conversely the amount that someone might be willing to pay to avoid a one-in-a-million chance of death). When put thus, people claim a high number but when inferred from their day-to-day actions (e.g., how much they are willing to pay for safety features on cars) a typical value is around $50 (in 2009)... The number of micromorts per day is one million divided by that number of days; in this case, about 39 micromorts acquired individually every day. "

So in reality most people would probably take around $10 million.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromort

[Edited on March 29, 2012 at 8:37 PM. Reason : MORT]

3/29/2012 8:37:01 PM

Quote :

"Make it 100 million and 25 years and we have a deal"

3/29/2012 8:38:03 PM

what would cause you to die in 15 years?

i'd use some of the money to research something to prevent that death

3/29/2012 8:50:28 PM

no. i want every chance to see my little girl grow up.

3/29/2012 9:30:40 PM

sounds like a movie script, where some rich foreigners get to hunt you around the end of your 15 years whilst you hide throughout the world with your money

3/29/2012 9:30:57 PM

Sure, 15 years doesn't sound like a long time, but you can afford cocaine.

That's 15*1/3 = 5 more years right off the bat. Sure your body will be about to collapse in 15 years but... oh right...

3/29/2012 9:55:57 PM

joke's on them. i'd use the 200 million to fund my Human Immortality Inc venture

[Edited on March 29, 2012 at 9:59 PM. Reason : even if we can only achieve 1% immortality, that's still like a couple hundred million years]

3/29/2012 9:58:28 PM

Quote :

"what would cause you to die in 15 years? i'd use some of the money to research something to prevent that death"

Death by Contract. Payable On Death.

3/29/2012 10:11:46 PM

i like the "sell your soul to the devil" movie script better for this one.

3/29/2012 11:47:30 PM

to me, this seems like a chit chat thread, to me..

Paging OmarBadu

3/30/2012 12:01:21 AM

Quote :

"even if we can only achieve 1% immortality, that's still like a couple hundred million years"

lol

3/30/2012 12:34:38 AM

Nope. Wouldn't even consider it.

I consider time more important than money already.

3/30/2012 1:12:26 AM

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637688/

sounds a lot like the movie In Time

and def. not. dying at 40 would suck. eventually I want to marry and have kids and all that jazz, and live vicariously through their accomplishments



[Edited on March 30, 2012 at 2:10 AM. Reason : .]

3/30/2012 2:06:29 AM

I'll take whatever you're offering at this point.

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[Edited on March 30, 2012 at 2:19 AM. Reason : .]

3/30/2012 2:14:30 AM

i want to take 0.00000000000000000..... dollars and remove like 0.00000000......lifes. By Zenos paradox, I has to live forever to pay it off.

[Edited on March 30, 2012 at 3:27 AM. Reason : because infinity is priceless]

3/30/2012 3:26:24 AM

For those saying no to 15...what if it was 20 or 30 years?

3/30/2012 10:07:43 AM

Quote :

"For those saying no to 15...what if it was 20 or 30 years?"

Well if I said no to taking 15 years off I suppose I'd say NO to taking off 20 or 30.

[Edited on March 30, 2012 at 10:12 AM. Reason : -]

3/30/2012 10:11:44 AM

enough for two ____ at the same time

3/30/2012 10:23:15 AM

Quote :

"Well if I said no to taking 15 years off I suppose I'd say NO to taking off 20 or 30."

You aren't taking off 15 years, you are dying 15 years after taking the money.

3/30/2012 10:26:12 AM

Oops.

Sure. Depending on my health I'd take the money at 70... and just spend myself into massive debt between now and then.

3/30/2012 10:34:08 AM

Quote :

"Depending on my health I'd take the money at 70... and just spend myself into massive debt between now and then."

That's pretty obvious for most people...we're talking about now though, not 70.

3/30/2012 10:35:07 AM

Nope. Because that puts me in my early 40s, and no way am I intentionally going out then. My 2nd career
should be happily underway and put me in a comfy spot by then, and I'm sure $200 million would only
make me self-destruct.

3/30/2012 10:54:53 AM

would not accept

3/30/2012 10:57:11 AM

^^ 30 years? 40?

3/30/2012 10:57:56 AM

I've reconsidered - so long as the death is quick and relatively painless, I'll accept $15

3/30/2012 11:07:30 AM

New question:

Would you agree to $200 M if the life of your spouse would end in 15 years?

Be honest.

3/30/2012 1:57:15 PM

would not accept. more money will not increase the quality of my life.

3/30/2012 2:13:03 PM

Quote :

"sounds like a movie script, where some rich foreigners get to hunt you around the end of your 15 years whilst you hide throughout the world with your money"

That sounds badass.



But seriously... mo money mo problems.

3/30/2012 3:06:54 PM

I'd do it. 42 good years is really all you need.

3/30/2012 3:11:57 PM

Quote :

"would not accept. more money will not increase the quality of my life. "

You must not know how to spend money wisely.

3/30/2012 3:22:10 PM

"I'm going to spend 90% of it on good times, women, and Irish whiskey. The other 10% I'm going to waste."

-Tug McGraw

3/30/2012 3:29:57 PM

^^

I just don't derive happiness from material things.

3/30/2012 5:25:52 PM

200m doesn't buy you material things

200m buys you freedom

3/30/2012 5:53:44 PM

^ no joke.

3/30/2012 5:58:49 PM

but happiness and quality of life are two different concepts.


and if you spent your money correctly on the pursuit of a better quality of life, you'd probably be even happier

The only difference between the wealth you have now and wealth you make from winning is the fact that you don't have to work anymore. That alone improves your quality of life.

3/30/2012 6:00:56 PM

think about how many years you spend at work, doing shit you don't like to do anyway. I mean 10 hours a day, 50 hours a week= how many years is this?

you won't be doing this anymore. You'd be doing whatever YOU want to do.

thus I'd be all for this honestly-

[Edited on March 31, 2012 at 8:01 AM. Reason : hours]

3/31/2012 8:00:18 AM

I like my job enough that I wouldn't trade 15 years of my life for money.

If you just offer me the money straight up, now we talking.

3/31/2012 8:34:20 AM

to each his own but some people just can't be bought, myself included. if you surround yourself with luxury goods, cars, drugs etc. then what kind of life are you truly living? A life of indulgence? If you saw the 3 Amigos, Ned was the only one that offered to use his "pending fortune" to start an orphanage for kids.



[Edited on March 31, 2012 at 1:04 PM. Reason : .]

3/31/2012 1:04:01 PM