A million dollars for 10 years of your life?
By chunter
@chunter (1759)
Singapore
November 16, 2007 3:15am CST
Let's just say a phantom pays you a visit and says that it can make you rich.
The phantom is willing to give you $1 million dollars (probably via some lottery numbers or others though guarantee you will get that amount) but in exchange, you would need to give up 10 years of your total life-span.
Assuming you can live up to 75-year old, if you accept the deal, you will now live up to 65-year old but you would now get the million dollars within, say 24 hours.
The question is: Would you exchange 10-year of your life for a million dollars?
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8 responses
@ahgong (10064)
• Singapore
16 Nov 07
The condition of the million dollars is just 10 years of my life?
So simple, with no strings attached?
No condemnation to hell?
No plague of sickness after getting the money?
Hmm... it is a really tempting offer. I would consider it seriously. Cos you are going to be making a deal with the phantom... but you never know how it is going to end.
Remember Ghost Rider? The devil promised Johnny Blaze his father's health be restored. But he never promised that his dad will live till a ripe old age to enjoy that good health.
What if you get the million dollars and are later plague by so many sickness that you end up spending that million mainly on medical bills, then what is the point?
@robsmith_1382 (2)
• Canada
17 Nov 07
well i guess it all depends on how old you are for starters. I guess if your only 18 years old and that oppertunity came up, you would just skip the hard part and go right to the easy part. You would be well established and would still be young enough to enjoy the money.
@Suze05 (480)
• United States
16 Nov 07
nope..10 years for 1 million.. not worth it. I'd rather be alive for as long as possible..now, maybe 100 million I might consider it, if I could be guaranteed there were no strings and no tricks. If I knew for a fact I would live to 80 or 90 without the deal..theres always a chance I'd be sick and feeble and unable to enjoy life through many of those 10 years anyway, so I'd take the money and enjoy. LOL
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@Monkeyrose (2840)
• Canada
17 Nov 07
It really depends on how old you are to begin with. Right now I think I would because I'm 24 and I have lots of life left. I'm also very broke right now too. A million dollers isn't really a lot of money though anymore.
I would also want to know when I was going to die.
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@jianing (14)
• China
17 Nov 07
firstly,i want you know we all common people . second ,life is so short for us ,we can not live 200 years .so my opinion is:I don't want to exchange 10-year of my life for a million dollars.it is so easy , Maybe,
you did not read my frame of reference clearly and .carefully; Why not give a thought about it and say???
@chunter (1759)
• Singapore
17 Nov 07
I think you are the one who's mistaken...
If you read your own answers, you are saying that you would exchange it if you live 200 years...
Which is why I'm asking, as a normal human, would you do it...
Just say no then, instead of being so sensitive about it..
@chunter (1759)
• Singapore
16 Nov 07
Heh...that would be too easy isn't it? If we can live more than few hundred years, what is 10-year?
Which is why I am interested to see how one would react considering a normal life span and if you really have this encounter...
Why not give a thought about it and see?
@wisedragon (2325)
• Philippines
16 Nov 07
Well, in my country 1 million dollars used to be 56 million pesos. Now it's only 42 million pesos. So it seems so small nowadays. I wouldn't accept the offer.
Now, if the phantom changes the deal to a billion dollars in exchange for 5 years of my life, then I might shake hands with the phantom!
@chrislotz (8137)
• Canada
12 Dec 07
I don't think I would have to think this one over for very long. Yes I would give up 10 years of my life for a million dollars. Just think of the quality of life you could have with that much money. I don't think the time we are alive is what is important but what we do with that time. I could do a lot with a million dollars, and the first thing I would do is help others with it.
