Would you trade 10 years of your life for £5 million?

[Fancycrab]

Inspired by an old Black Mirror episode I watched. Got me wondering, if it was possible to age 10 years in a minute (but you haven’t gone forward in time & no one else has aged, just you) for £5 million would you do it? What about for £10m or £15m?

I would.

I would be able to set my dc up for life and they wouldnt have to struggle like i have. I would be 10 years older but they wouldn't have aged so I still get to be Mum and raise them. I would just be older.

Yes. Because my life has collapsed in irrecoverable ways. The rest of it will be terrible. With 5 million I can reverse that and have enough to help my kids start out in life. Thats better than another 30 years of daily deep unhappiness.

No way I already have primary hyperparathyroidism which causes me a lot of symptoms such as severe osteoporosis, DVT x 2, tachycardia, insomnia, palpitations, muscle loss, severe insomnia. I had failed surgery for this in 2017 and have found a surgeon in the UK who is hopefully going to find the bastard small so called benign tumour and give me back the 5 years of my life that phpt has already robbed from me. Although the time I was in A n E with phosphate of 0.29 and potassium of 3.1 nearly robbed me of my whole life already. (Only reason for these blood test results, the high calcium, high parathyroid hormone and low phosphate caused by primary hyperparathyroidism!

Oh no, not if I have to age 10 years now.

My family are reasonably long lived, though - if it were knick 10 years off and die at 85 rather than 95 I'd take that!

No way

Only if I was guaranteed to live over 90. I’d trade those last 10 years for the next 30 having an amazing time and providing for my nearest and dearest so they could have a wonderful life. My dmum is 93 so longevity is in the genes.
if I couldn’t gaze into the crystal ball first, then no way.

Absolutely. No desire to exceed 70 anyway.

Am I taking that 5 mil to Heaven? Money is not the goal in this life. Aim for something much higher.

But you'd still have the last ten, you'd lose ten out of the middle or wherever you are now!
Me- no way

I would maybe give 10 years years of my life in return for £5k if they were taken from the end of my life (so I’d die at, say, 75 instead of £85).

I might have also said yes if you asked me in my early 20s when I felt immortal.

Now, in my mid 40s, every minute is so precious.
Today is the youngest I will ever be!

If I was going to live to 95 and I had to die at 85 instead, then yes. I would live the last 25-ish years of my life in the lap of luxury, and secure a strong and solid financial future for my 2 adult DC.

If I had to die in the next 10-12 years, (like I was only going to live to 80, and had to die at 70 instead!) then probably not!

What Black Mirror was it @Fancycrab ???

Depends which 10 I think, but even then probably no. If it was the next 10 absolutely not.

No way

yes, if I knew I’d live to 95 and the last decade was poor health and a gradual lack of function and autonomy

gimme the money

I'm interpreting this as losing the next ten years, not my last. I'm 45, so no, i wouldn't. I have enough money and would not sacrifice precious time to live my life in good health for more.

no

I’d not read it properly

If it was the last ten and I was going to die at 96 then sure. If I wake up tomorrow ten years older? No.

only people who have enough money to meet their needs come out with this sort of smug self satisfied inanity. Money helps with everything. Even making friends or having a relationship. It’s hard to do that if you don’t have money to go out or socialize.

I am a math teacher earning around 3,500 a month, ten years in. I do not have much money, but I am very, very wealthy.💖

I’d only be mid 30s so idk, maybe. As long as nothing else changes at all and I don’t miss any time/my children or family etc haven’t aged

Absolutely not

But most people don’t go into care🤷‍♀️

Absolutely!

Absolutely, I'd be 55 and be able to enjoy the last part of my life in luxury rather than the misery I expect from the next 25 years, that's If I long that long