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alphabits wrote:Do I still get to keep the gold?

My first thought was, "Live to be 97 in excellent health? Sign me up!"

But, what if in the next 10-15 years, medical science comes up with some new vaccine that prolongs your life (in good health) even longer ..... or indefinitely? Then when you drop dead in 40 years, all your friends will be saying "Oh what a shame, he died so young."

I'm with Bits!
300 lbs of gold at $850 an ounce is over $4 million
that will buy a lot of health (and Buffett tickets)

Well, first I'd make the guy pay for the home theater setup and video game consoles that would've been in the cabinet under the TV, and would have collapsed under the weight of the gold. (If not the floorboards and the tv ended up in the crawl space...)

After that, I doubt it. That'd make me only 70-ish, and that's too young to just up and die.

I am happy with what I have....I'll pass on the deal

let's see....I'm 43, act like I'm 23 and hurt for a couple of days everytime I try....I now have 4 mil in the bank, and a guy offering me 40 years of living like I'm 20 with no hangovers??? Yeah, sign me up and BTW, there's another TV in the bedroom pal

40 more years with good health guaranteed and then a quick painless death, I would say sure. That would be a good deal as far as I can I can see.

If I did take the deal, I'd think I'd want to know when it was gonna happen, so I can make sure and get to as much of my "someday I will..." list as possible before I keel over.

I don't talk a lot about my religious views here, and I'm not going to go into detail now because, no disrespect to Mac MacAnally, I don't want to be pegged as the "token Baptist", but I wouldn't take the deal.

In my religion, sickness and death, while they're difficult to go through, can bring about good things.

Paul went blind and thanked God for it. Job became sick and lost his family and all of his possessions, but thanked God even in his suffering because, even though it was hard to deal with and hard to understand, he believed that the fact that God's hand was in it showed that there was a purpose to his suffering and it wasn't just a random tragedy.

On a much more primal, emotional level, I still wouldn't take the deal because it's the fleeting nature of life that makes it so precious. When something is rare, it becomes much more valuable and it is only because we know that our lives are over pretty quickly and can end at any time that drives us to embrace it so.

Not preaching at anybody, just trying to give a little different perspective.