Show of Hands

Women in my family routinely hang around until their late 90s. I'd take the chance.

Not now. If I had any dependents, then I might consider it.

I'd do it for free 😫

I did no because I could just drop dead right then and there because I could die in less than a year. And I would want to live my life

I sold myself for 20 years to earn my first million, 1 year at the end of my life for 1 million upfront seems like a much better deal.

Yes. With a frugal lifestyle, it lasts 30+ years.
Enough for me.

Fuck yes. I would never work again and actually get to enjoy my life.

Absolutely not. I don't do dumb things for money.

I vote yes just because I could use the money to become richer easily and then use that money to invest in science to help create stuff to make me live probably more than just one year longer

Tax free?

*Sells last year*
*Instantly dies*

No way. First, time is worth more than money - and that isn't even all that much money. Second, I might already be in the one year window and not even have the few hours left it would take to spend and enjoy the cash.

Hell yes. Why wouldn't I want to drastically improve my life in my physical prime in exchange for a year of what will most likely be pain and illness?

Says yes. Dies immediately. You never know!

I calculated that if I work every hour 24/7 for the entire year my gross income would be about 718,000. Obviously sleep and the need for food and other things would detract from this so I would gladly give up a year to have 1 million.

In a heartbeat.

Plot twist. You've only got 6 months to live.

100% yes. Pay off all my debts, pay my moms mortgage and enjoy life.

Yes, but I wouldn't do five years for $5 million.

If I were 20 (I'm not, that birthday is long lost in the mists of the Paleozoic) the answer may well be yes.
It might might well result in a longer life: Stress is a huge life-shorter. $1 million, used wisely, might go far to reduce stress enough to gain me back that year, plus some.

One million dollars can help you make that year up and way more quick with how many adventures you could go on.

Can I do it 5 times? The ones at the end are gonna suck anyway, rather do some traveling and enjoy it now.

Statistically, my husband is likely to die quite a few years before me and life without him won't hold nearly as much value for me. So, I'd go for it to make our lives much easier and hopefully to gain him a few more years since he wouldn't have to work and be stressed so much.

What happens with this choice if at some point you decide to end it yourself?

There's no amount of money worth me not being able to spend another year with my family.

The last year of my life most likely won't be that great. Meanwhile a million dollars will save me a lot of time and stress. I'll probably get more than a year of my life back from the time I would've been working. So yes.

I wonder how the terminally ill would answer...

Or, putting it differently, if they were told they could live another healthy year for a million dollars, would it be worth paying?

Not if I'm planning to die within the next 365.25 days, but otherwise I'll take it!

I would leave it for my grandchildren in trust. I might've died several months ago. Because we do not know the number of our days. Actually I'm gonna change my vote. I just thought of my granddaughter. I think she rather have more time with me than have her college paid for. I think she'd be very upset if I gave up my life so she could have more things. She has had some anxiety about me eventually dying .

"No", thank you.

With my luck I'd fucking die instantly lol but a million bucks, that's a lot of money.

Yes, because I could invest that money partly in getting and staying fit, thereby prolonging my life and coming out ahead.

Yes bc it will nullify the cost of my kids over 20 years of their lives.

Can I do 5!?!? I would just do 5 years for 5 millie n actually enjoy the rest of my life. Every second of it being unburdened by any sort of financial stress or need to work.

Yep.

No thanks. I hate all that pocket change. In all seriousness the older I get the less value money has and the higher value time has. With that kind of money I could retire much earlier but I'm still not sure this is a deal I would take.

"Life is worth much more than gold"

My last year of life will probably be miserable due to aging, some disease or both anyways

At 73 the answer is a big NO WAY!

For ME, this seems reasonable at the moment...

I plan on living forever. Time is far more precious than money.