1 billion euro, but you can only live another 20 years maximum.

BetterThanThou

Would you take it? You're not guaranteed to live another 20 years, but if you are still alive in 20 years, you will be killed.

Tipsy McSwagger

No because you wouldn't enjoy it knowing you could die at any moment. You would also end up in the nut house thinking how you will be killed in 20 years.

Mint Aero

Since when does a billionaire ever die young

And before someone links to one that did, they didn't, they paid to make it look like that.

Royal Irish

I'd do it for 1 million.

rwg

hows about 2 billion?

corktina

so will I. who wants to live to eighty anyway! (send on the cheque)

FearDark

I'd do terrible things for a fiver.

ElecKtrA

I would take it!! But only because I know I will give the money away to those that need it most (spread it out to lots and lots of charitable organizations) and would give a lot to research especially Cancer research...we really need to find a cure! I'll take a small portion of it myself and use it to travel and see some places that I've always wanted to see.

I would then be happy enough to depart this life knowing that I've contributed in some way to the quality of lives of others and that I would of seen and experienced places that I wouldn't of without some financial help.

FearDark

Ok I take 1 billion euro and hire the best bodyguards/army money can buy.

Or is that like getting three wishes and wishing for more wishes?

antodeco

Irish euro or European euro? Don't want to get caught out with the exchange rate!

FearDark

antodeco wrote: »

Irish euro or European euro? Don't want to get caught out with the exchange rate!

One billion Spanish Yen.

Sam Kade

BetterThanThou wrote: »

Would you take it? You're not guaranteed to live another 20 years, but if you are still alive in 20 years, you will be killed.

Sounds good for anyone over 60

lau1247

BetterThanThou wrote: »

Would you take it? You're not guaranteed to live another 20 years, but if you are still alive in 20 years, you will be killed.

I'd take it and will live the next 20 years to the most satisfactory way possible. Even as it is now, there is no guarantee that anyone can live for another 20 years anyway so might as well enjoy the carefree life.

As for the 20 year ticking timer, by that stage i'd enjoyed as much as i can so not much to regret??

FearDark

I'd be dead from drugs after a year anyway...

MonstaMash

If I live another 20 years with my lifestyle, it'll be a fookn miracle...sign me up

& just to spite the deal, I'd top myself just before the deadline (pun intended)

Drakares

No.

Eight Ball

Tempting. Would take if I knew for certain I would drop dead in 20 years at 61.

FearDark

Drakares wrote: »

No.

Stick around, we need people with your kind of wit and insight here at AH.

FizzleSticks

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Sir Osis of Liver.

Seen as im only a few months off 80,yes ill take it.

NegativeCreep

ElecKtrA wrote: »

I would take it!! But only because I know I will give the money away to those that need it most (spread it out to lots and lots of charitable organizations) and would give a lot to research especially Cancer research...we really need to find a cure! I'll take a small portion of it myself and use it to travel and see some places that I've always wanted to see.

I would then be happy enough to depart this life knowing that I've contributed in some way to the quality of lives of others and that I would of seen and experienced places that I wouldn't of without some financial help.

...zzzzzzzzzzz.... Yawn.

J_E

Absolutely. 20 years is enough for me to do everything I've wanted to in life. Would give me incentive to live every day. What's that anyway, like 7000 days?

thecatspjs

Wouldn't take it. Part of me likes the unpredictability of slumming it out and living month to month. Plus I'm only 26, plenty of living to be done after 46.

MonaPizza

20 years and 2 billion buys a lot of manic devoted followers and lots of indoctrination, weaponry and training. The new religion for my minions would be to blow a hole in the planet upon hearing of my death. I'd be like that army officer in the good, the bad and the ugly...."keep me alive a little longer. I'm expecting good news." And with my demise, 2 trillion worth of damage is done, ha!

thattequilagirl

Nah, 45 is too young to die. And while having effectively limitless funds would be fun and give you a lot of options in life, there is only so much money can buy.

Sir Arthur Daley

I would not take it, money cannot buy you happiness.

BofaDeezNuhtz

FearDark wrote: »

I'd be dead from drugs after a year anyway...

I'd be sucked inside outwards from BJ's ffs

J_E

WikiHow wrote: »

I would not take it, money cannot buy you happiness.

But it can buy a lifetime supply of cookies. And bouncy castles.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Wouldn't tempt me. I have young children and want to be around for them for a lot longer than 20 years.

H2UMrsRobinson

For sure. Could live off the interest alone to a stupidly high standard. My only child would never want for anything and I would die at the peak of my 'Helen Mirren' phase. To be honest I'd probably take half that.

Phoebas

corktina wrote: »

so will I. who wants to live to eighty anyway!

79 year olds.

Sunnyisland

If I took it that would make me 72 when the twenty years are up....


Na think I will leave it, reckon I would get up to me eighties and be quite happy in doing so.

Pumpkinseeds

Hell yeah I'd do it. I might die tomorrow anyway but at least I'd have enjoyed being obscenely rich, even if it was just for a short period of time.

jobeenfitz

I'm fifty with multiple heart attack risk factors. Gimme the money!

Filibuster

The worst thing you could do would be to die with 1 billion euro in the bank.

downonthefarm

I would give it to poor bill Cullen .heard him on Marion today.the poor fella has had a rough couple of years

Capt'n Midnight

WikiHow wrote: »

I would not take it, money cannot buy you happiness.

What can ?

Certainly money can remove a lot of financial stress, meaning you can get on with living life.

The Backwards Man

Is it a British billion or an American billion?

Sir Arthur Daley

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Is it a European billion or an American billion?

Is that hugely significant?

The Backwards Man

WikiHow wrote: »

Is that hugely significant?

Pretty much. By about 999000000000.

lau1247

WikiHow wrote: »

I would not take it, money cannot buy you happiness.

Money cannot buy you happiness but with it makes it a lot easier to get by. Won't have much happiness if you're having money problem either.

Guess which one is the better of the two?

thecatspjs

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

What can ?

Certainly money can remove a lot of financial stress, meaning you can get on with living life.

Experience and earning things for yourself can bring more happiness than the instant gratification of being handed (basically) infinite wealth IMO. I could understand it for someone who is poor with slim chance of ever improving their lot in life.

Sir Arthur Daley

I was merely trying to emphasise that if it was a UK billion or US billion they are both vast sums of money and either billion would be a ridiculous amount for any person to inherit.

lilymc

NO. Seeing my children grow up, get married, have children themselves are more important than all the money in the world.

DazMarz

In 20 years' time, I'd be 45. Also, a billion euro? What a 20 freaking years it would be!!!

Think about it; what a life I'd have. Seriously. The big house(s), cars, private jets, anything I'd want a phone call away, anywhere in the world I'd want to go, anything I'd ever want, anything I'd ever need, any goddamn thing that tickled my fancy... mine. No questions. Or at least very little anyway (obviously a pet dinosaur or true love and all that is off the list; but anything else...).

And by kicking the bucket at 45, you miss out on the ravages of old age and the horrendous decaying that inevitably follows. Add in, for whomever your dependants and benefactors are at the time of your death, they're getting a nice bit of poppy out of it.

If someone seriously, genuinely offered me this right now... would I take it? In a heartbeat. Not a doubt it my mind. The pro's heavily outweigh the con's, for me anyway...

Sir Arthur Daley

People are obsessed with money, is a family living in a third world country no less happier than a billionaire family?