What if you were to be given $60,000,000,000....

[The Spawn]

..the only catch is, your life must end at the age of 60.

Would you take it?

 

[Colossal Spoons]

Aw man, tough one. People are living way past 60 these days so I might be missing out on a lot. But that's a lot of freakin money...

 

[Prison Mike]

this is a toughy. 60 is pretty young to die. but then again, at 22, I would have a good 38 years to spend that money. I don't know. I guess I would take the money.

 

[Ahura Mazda]

For 60 billion I would; It would leave a legacy for the rest of my family which i have no hopes of achieving today. Then again, I would be cutting my life I would think tremendously. I have no hopes of myking 60b in my life time whereas I think 10-20m is achievable so really my choice is questionable.

 

[jaguarr]

No, I would not. I'm going to live to a ripe old age. There is more to life than an assload of money. Then again, any contract has loopholes that can be exploited if you hire the right lawyer, so you could probably take the money and then screw your way out of the agreement to die at 60 with the right legal team.


jag

 

[November Rain]

meh, average nigerian male life expectancy is 55 so this is a bonus...

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

I would say, money doesn't make you happy, love does. And when you love people, you want to be able to spend time together. There are so many people who you'd swear were 50 and they're really 70.
Imagine how empty and stupid it would be, to have a gigantic estate, the biggest TV in the world all Earthly possessions you'd ever desired, on your 60th birthday.

Others, I'm sure, would say, "Well, I wouldn't spend it all on myself. I'd use it to help people and make the world a better place...like a martyr-philanthropist, so, it would actually be selfish to want to live past 60 and not be able to help so many people.

I would say, "Screw that."

 

[DorkyFresh]

if i could be guaranteed that i'd live till i'm 60 and if it's a quick, painless death then i probably would. besides, once you go past 60 it's all down hill. i honestly don't want to be 80 y/o and having to depend on someone else to change my diapers.

 

[November Rain]

I can imagine half of you still posting here when you're sixty....

spelling may not be so hot with shaky hands though....heh....

 

[The Spawn]

I don't care how healthy you think you are.

A natural cause of death can come from something that doesn't seem all too natural if you catch my drift.

And the question is simple...you can only live till your 60...it is your job to make it that far.

You can die before however. Just like you can die when you get the money.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

if i could be guaranteed that i'd live till i'm 60 and if it's a quick, painless death then i probably would. besides, once you go past 60 it's all down hill.

Preposterous.
Ian MacKellan is 69
Anthony Hopkins is 70

They have awesome lives.
I have actually seen them both in interviews talking about how much they love life today.

 

[The Spawn]

 

[The Spawn]

 

[Avangarde]

I'd take it and spend it all on "Body Re-Animation Research" aka "Teh Evil Zombie Make'n Machine of Doooooooooom". That way when I come back I'll be both Undead and Pimped to the max, score!

 

[Danalys]

i'll take a tenth asmuch for ten times the life span.

 

[November Rain]

Preposterous.
Ian MacKellan is 69
Anthony Hopkins is 70

They have awesome lives.
I have actually seen them both in interviews talking about how much they love life today.

Are you actually using rich celebrities as a means of describing life for a typical person in your late 60s?

that's not like you to have your vision skewered by fame?

you really think you're going to be living the same life as anthony hopkins and ian mackellen if you make it to 70?

 

[LiveWire777]

Apparently the worlds ending in 2012 so the jokes on whoevers givin u the money mwahaha =b

 

[The Spawn]

You can 10 years earlier if you take the offer.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Are you actually using rich celebrities as a means of describing life for a typical person in your late 60s?

that's not like you to have your vision skewered by fame?

you really think you're going to be living the same life as anthony hopkins and ian mackellen if you make it to 70?

I'm using celebrities because they are people I know the guy knows, and not as doddering, chair-bound, miserable people, but as vibrant, sharp, creative, interesting people.
I know plenty of people over 60 who are having one of the best times of their lives.

Using a celebrity means we both know who they are.
If I say, "My uncle Chico and this librarian I know and the hotdog stand man and my boss's boss and this lady I know are all over 60 and their lives are effing great and they're very happy.", he doesn't know those people and may either think I'm overstating how great their lives are, or that I'm making them up.


Celebrity means two strangers can be familiar with the person.

 

[The Spawn]

I didn't think you'd be able to turn that around.

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Well it's obvious that Dorky Fresh is a kid, and he's not going to be impressed with a Jazz Musician I know who has two young girlfriends and is over 60, but will be impressed with Magneto/Gandalf.

 

[The Spawn]

 

[Finlandman]

I wouldn't take it. It's not a good thing to know when you would die, and all that money, I'd rather have a normal life.

 

[November Rain]

I'm using celebrities because they are people I know the guy knows, and not as doddering, chair-bound, miserable people, but as vibrant, sharp, creative, interesting people.
I know plenty of people over 60 who are having one of the best times of their lives.

Using a celebrity means we both know who they are.
If I say, "My uncle Chico and this librarian I know and the hotdog stand man and my boss's boss and this lady I know are all over 60 and their lives are effing great and they're very happy.", he doesn't know those people and may either think I'm overstating how great their lives are, or that I'm making them up.


Celebrity means two strangers can be familiar with the person.

Isn't the possibility of being doubted (especially when being sincere) better than the possibility of coming across unrealistic of old age life aspirations based on celebrities?

unless you're speaking to an actual celebrity, the points you bring are kinda invalid. I'm fairly sure none of us are going to live the lifestlye of multimillionaire famous celebs in our late 70s so why not make it relative and not worry 'bout being called out?

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

You have "challenged" me on a lot of petty, pedantic bull**** over the years and this is a great example.

I'm not saying, "Dude! Make it past 60 and you'll be an Oscar-winning British thespian! It roolZ!"

He is thinking of "old", as "old", so I was trying to remind him that, they are humans, who have a good time, and don't want to die, necessarily...whereas he was saying that once you're old, it's all crap and then you die.

So, I thought of an old person that he probably knows of, who is not in a dismal downward spiral of degeneration just because they are pretty old.


I am 36 and much happier than I was as a teenager, but if you asked me when I was a teenager, I'd probably say that being over 30 would suck.

This cuts both ways...you're saying that it's dumb to bring up a very exceptional old person to tout the wonders of being old and wise.
I'd say, you're being dumb to act like my whole position stands based on those mere 2 examples, when they are just droplets in the ocean of old, wise people who love the **** out of life, or, to act as if the only thing that would make aging that much agreeable, would be to be a multi-millionaire/internationally lauded movie star.