The deal

[Gnisy]

Say a stranger approach you with a deal - exchange the last 18 years of your life with a blank check that you can cash for any amount of money you want. The trick is that you won't know how long you can live and for all you know once you signed the deal, you could drop dead on the spot. Or if you were destined to live til your 90 you still got plenty of years to live with the money. Walk away from this deal now and you will never see the stranger again.

What will you do? There is no definite answer. I'd just like to know how you will handle it. With all due respect to religions that are against soul-selling, this is nothing of the sort and I am not going to offer you a deal such as this either. It's just a question of what-if. Awaiting all your answers.

Reposted it from quizzes and puzzles since there are too many other entries there

[foofighter]

would you take another 18 years added to life if offered?You may be in pain and no matter what you do you will still live on for 18 years or you might be due any minute....now thats a brain melter!

[woofgang]

absolutely not!

[{Dakota}]

I would definately not. Why would I want to exchange all those memories (good and bad) for something that ultimately will not fulfill me.

[smudge]

Certainly not for me either - After all:

Money is the root of all Evil!

[MangoPete]

Presuming the money was limitless or billions of pounds You could transform thousands / millions of lives with it
even if you died the next day after setting up a trust fund. Would saving so many lives be worth the risk of a shorter life to you?
i would say yes,
But then I have been and seen the suffering 1st hand

[funnywebsite]

I probably would not take a chance with the life thing. I had my fortune told once not by a gypsy or similar but a free thing by somebody who was writing a book on astrology and they said I had a long life line. There is a lot I might change from the last 18 years i.e money things but you cannot turn the clock back.

[mimififi]

Not for me. i wouldn't be able to remember the births and deaths of my beautiful children.....Give me a paupers life anyday. Some things can't be bought.

[Gnisy]

MangoPete has an interesting answer to the question. I have had plenty of friends who are answering everything everyone here has answered - a short and stern NO or that money is not worth exchanging for memories, children, grandchildren, material wants.. basically it's a no to the question.

I just wonder what would be the initiative behind a YES reply.

[bracknell]

What on earth prompted this question? I would be telling this total stranger to go forth and multiply. And I thought it was a joke when my company told me that my job was being outscourced to Bangalore India.

[Gnisy]

Yup, i got the 'what on earth prompted this question?' too.