Which would you choose?

AckwelFoley

If, now - you were offered by the grim reaper €5,000,000 for the last 5 years of your life when ever they may be would you take it?

You,are perhaps now young and in good health and presuming your last 5 years are in your seventies, you will be able to spend it now and enjoy it.

If of course you last five years are close - you're **** out of luck.

Would you take the money and enjoy spending it now on things you always wanted, or would you send the grim reaper packing telling him you value life regardless of how old and disabled you may be.

For the record, no i wouldnt take it, if money is what you're missing to make you happy in life you are doing it wrong

OutlawPete

I'd take it and make sure the I lived to the max.

My health and that of my family would be better as a result as the stress from money worries would be gone for one.

WindSock

Maybe if I were in my 50s or 60s I would. It would suck a lot if you were to die in 3 years though. Would you get 3 Mill instead?

Hank_Jones

I couldn't give a flying fcuk about money, I'd live the five years.

If you never know what age you are going to die at, then there is the chance you will be hit by a bus 5 years and one day from today.
Which would make today my last day alive. No way I would take the money.

AckwelFoley

WindSock wrote: »

Maybe if I were in my 50s or 60s I would. It would suck a lot if you were to die in 3 years though. Would you get 3 Mill instead?

no.

You need to have 5 available years left. If you dont you die the second you receive the money.

So essentially you will have the money. But you're dead. The dosh is non transferable to family

Ticktactoe

5,000,000 for five years?! The recession has also hit the grim reaper!

Depends on what you had to live for within the last five years of your life.
If I thought i was going to be living on my own with no family or friends, then yes!

Im out of luck on that one, so looks like im living in poverty for the remainder of my life!

Ann22

If you took the money and invested it...you lived 'til you were a happy sprightly 70yr old having fun with your grandkids etc the grim reaper appeared and said 'right it's your time now' ...would you give the money back for an extra 5yrs? Hmmm..

minidazzler

I'd take the money, then trick death into giving me 5 more years each time until I am ready to go!

It worked for An Cearrbhach Mac Cába, it will work for me!

m@cc@

No, it's pretty pathetic to think of your life in monetary terms.

minidazzler

m@cc@ wrote: »

No, it's pretty pathetic to think of your life in monetary terms.

But it's not thinking of it in monetary terms. Money is only as valuable as what it can pay for, for me I know €5,000,000 would make me really happy because of what I could put it to use doing. And at the end of the day, life is about what you do with it. I would have fun.

AckwelFoley

m@cc@ wrote: »

No, it's pretty pathetic to think of your life in monetary terms.

Tell that to some one that has no job 3 kids and a 3000 euro /month mortgage

ToniTuddle

I'd take the money.

Set up the right accounts and make sure my family was well looked after for the future. Then if I died the next week I would have eased all of their worries in money terms at least.

AckwelFoley

snyper wrote: »

no.

You need to have 5 available years left. If you dont you die the second you receive the money.

So essentially you will have the money. But you're dead. The dosh is non transferable to family

ToniTuddle wrote: »

I'd take the money.

Set up the right accounts and make sure my family was well looked after for the future. Then if I died the next week I would have eased all of their worries in money terms at least.

Admiralbe, but you have been foiled

Biggins

No.

I value life more than I do money, end of story.

minidazzler

snyper wrote: »

Admiralbe, but you have been foiled

A question of semantics, what about the spoils of the money? Could I buy a Car and then give it to someone in my family? (Not that I would...screw those guys!) :P

AckwelFoley

minidazzler wrote: »

A question of semantics, what about the spoils of the money? Could I buy a Car and then give it to someone in my family? (Not that I would...screw those guys!) :P

Stop trying to fcuk with the grim reaper. He does not care for sematics :pac:

Caoimhín

I dont understand the question.

tony1kenobi

Is the Euro the official currency in hell?If not what is the exchange rate for devil euro against our euro?I'd hate to say yes and only get 30 quid out of it.

Although I'll risk it anyway.I can get a few cans in for the Barca/Inter match.

ToniTuddle

snyper wrote: »

Admiralbe, but you have been foiled

Damn it >.<

minidazzler wrote: »

A question of semantics, what about the spoils of the money? Could I buy a Car and then give it to someone in my family? (Not that I would...screw those guys!) :P

Yeah! If I paid for a house to be built/cars/huge garden full of veg and gardener to do all the work throughout the year/give loads of money to ESB etc etc is that allowed?

:P

AckwelFoley

Caoimhín wrote: »

I dont understand the question.

Take the money then

RolandIRL

i'd negotiate a better deal off the grim reaper, get more years, less money, maybe...

i wouldn't care for €5m but if it was something realistic (if this thread was realistic to begin with :P) like €100,000 for the last 1/2 year, i'd go with that.

but if it came down to a straight choice, i'd go life over money.

is €5m the new GDP for life?

Prof.Badass

I'd take the money and buy myself a nice house in a good location then manage the rest really well (leaving a good bit for retirement). You're not buying yourself happiness, but you're relieving yourself from a lot of stress and worry. Not to mention freeing yourself up to do what you'd really enjoy with your life rather than what pays well.

AckwelFoley

whiteman19 wrote: »

i'd negotiate a better deal off the grim reaper, get more years, less money, maybe...

This is not an episode of "The Dragons Den" you cannot negotiate with the Grim Reaper. Try, but he'll probably give you a kick in the nuts

AckwelFoley

vinylmesh wrote: »

I'd take the money and buy myself a nice house in a good location then manage the rest really well (leaving a good bit for retirement). You're not buying yourself happiness, but you're relieving yourself from a lot of stress and worry and freeing yourself to do what you really want in life (which may not give much money).

Good point there

By removing dtress from your life perhaps you will extend the time you live therefore in effect canceling out the 5 years you sold the reaper. Good thinking Batman

bonzodog2

Life is indeed worth more than money, but we never know when we'll go. Once you have the 5M€ off the reaper though, he can't take it back! You could improve some of your loved ones lives with that cash.

RolandIRL

snyper wrote: »

This is not an episode of "The Dragons Den" you cannot negotiate with the Grim Reaper. Try, but he'll probably give you a kick in the nuts

so he'd be like Gavin duffy, and say i'm out before i even open my mouth... :P

but if the grim reaper looked like sarah, it'd make it a harder choice

Novella

Obviously I don't know when I'm gonna die but I'd hope it's in more than five years, a lot more. There's a lot of stuff I want to see and do before I die and pretty much every single day I find something else to put on the list.

Of course, I could die today, tomorrow but I don't know that so I'm living thinking that I have a long time ahead of me, and I like it that way. If I only had five years to live, that would suck. What if I had a child? No amount of money makes up the loss of a loved one. That's my opinion anyway.

Ali Babba

I'd take the money and live dangerously knowing I had five years to play with, probably be pissed and high as a kite for the last six months for good measure!!:D

minidazzler

I'd take the money before I eat, drink, fight and fcuk my way around the world until the money is gone, then I would welcome death with open arms like an old friend!

--LOS--

Caoimhín wrote: »

I dont understand the question.

I too had a slow moment but I think what he's saying is that it's not necessarily that you'll only have 5 more years left to live if you take the money, just that you'll have 5 years less than whenever your time to die naturally is, which is a bit of a paradox but anyways.

No way would I take the money, I know I'm young but I've been pretty much broke my whole life so far and I think you can't miss what you don't have.

Plus I'm scared enough of death, I don't need to be worrying when I'm going to die as well as the 5 year subtraction, plus how the hell would I know when to spend it, that's too much to think about, no thanks.

Ali Babba

--LOS-- wrote: »

Plus I'm scared enough of death, I don't need to be worrying when I'm going to die as well as the 5 year subtraction, plus how the hell would I know when to spend it, that's too much to think about, no thanks.

Why are you afraid of dying, we all have to go at some stage also worrying never solved anything.............

--LOS--

Ali Babba wrote: »

Why are you afraid of dying, we all have to go at some stage also worrying never solved anything.............

It's not like I sit around worrying about it but I'm atheist so I think it goes with the territory, makes it harder to deal with people I've lost etc.

Just basically everything is pretty much meaningless so why the hell would I want to have money with some kind of clause so that I inevitably go mad thinking if I spend this all now, I could live longer and have nothing later, if I don't spend it and die earlier, I've given my 5 years away for nothing, which at the end of the day means nothing to me either way when I'm gone, so why would I want that kind of hassle in life.

I want the 5 years as well as all the rest.

oops, can of worms

alwaysadub

I'd take the money and live life to the max, do everything on my wish list Then die happy.

duckygalway

the money!!

epgc3fyqirnbsx

If I had that money I could travel to just about every country on the planet which, realistically, I wont do otherwise
I could drive the car I always wanted amd ride the women I always wanted
I could built a big house with a heated pool

I can barely afford a haircut at the moment so yeah, i'd take the money. When you're gone you're gone anyways, everyone gets over it. You wont have to

Misty Chaos

The poll results aren't impressing me. :pac:

As for me, sorry Grim Reaper, no deal! I don't care if I end up living in poverty all of my life, money doesn't buy happiness, no matter what people say.

minidazzler

Misty Choas wrote: »

The poll results aren't impressing me. :pac:

As for me, sorry Grim Reaper, no deal! I don't care if I end up living in poverty all of my life, money doesn't buy happiness, no matter what people say.

Nothing buys happiness, but money can provide that comfort that leads to a stress free and happy existance!

I would take 5 years of being well off and happy now and dead by 25 over 70 years of living paycheck to paycheck and miserable thinking about what could have been.

Agricola

The money for me. You could get a cancer and die at 55. After this grim reaper proposition youd be dead at 50. Wow.
I think id rather be a millionaire til im 50, than spend 55 years pinching pennies.

ChocolateSauce

What about one million for one year?

Nulty

I'm in my mid twenties...what do you think I'm going to say?

Anyway, by the time I'm 50yo, things could have gone so bad that I am thinking of ending it myself!

My bank account number is 684-256843

Erica<3

I'd rather be poor, happy, alive and laughing with my friends then worrying when I'm going to snuff it purely because i took a ridiculous amount of money.

Rockn

I'd definitely take the money. In fact I'd trade a year of my life for a decent job right now.

Ticktactoe

Ticktactoe wrote: »

5,000,000 for five years?! The recession has also hit the grim reaper!

Depends on what you had to live for within the last five years of your life.
If I thought i was going to be living on my own with no family or friends, then yes!

Im out of luck on that one, so looks like im living in poverty for the remainder of my life!

After that weekend, I change my mind .... Im taking the money :P