How much is your life worth??

[Alobar]

Me and a friend were discussing this the other day, and I thought I'd ask here and see what you freaks...er...OOT readers had to say /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Would you bet your life against a billion dollars on the toss of a coin? i.e. if it comes up heads, you win a billion. If it comes up tails, you instantly die.

What about on the roll of a dice? Say if you roll a 1 you die, but anything else nets you a million dollars. If no, is there a monetary amount high enough you would be willing to gamble your life on?

Neither me or my friend would do the coin toss for a billion, but I think I would roll the die for a couple million. We are all going to die someday and 1 in 6 is prolly better odds than me living 30+ more years anyway, I might as well take the gamble and spend the rest of my life rich and covered in hot naked women.

[spamuell]

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1 in 6 is prolly better odds than me living 30+ more years anyway,

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No way this is true. There's not a chance that a sixth of thirty year olds are dead by 60. I have this idea that you're thirty, or close to it.

EDIT: I should qualify this with the usual American, no life-threatening diseases (which I suppose I don't know whether or not this is true for you, I just assumed), not a stunt actor or something yada yada.

[Non_Comformist]

I would do neither. I am pretty muhc happy with my life. Sure I would like to be rich or increase my win rate by a few BB/100 but money isn't everything. There a things worth dieing for but that isn't one of them.

[BusterStacks]

I would take the dice roll.

Edit: if that was after taxes.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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Edit: if that was after taxes.

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This is the best single line I've seen in the last 5 minutes.

[AngryCola]

David Sklansky wrote a great essay about this in "Poker, Gaming, & Life", which is one of my favorite books written by him.

Apparently, your own life is worth more than any amount you can win. /images/graemlins/smirk.gif

[ThaSaltCracka]

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Edit: if that was after taxes.

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This is the best single line I've seen in the last 5 minutes.

[/ QUOTE ]LMAO, dude, where do you come up with this stuff, classic [censored] right there.

[dr. klopek]

yes. definitely. I would do the coin flip thing for like, $100.

[felson]

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If no, is there a monetary amount high enough you would be willing to gamble your life on?

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I can't think of a monetary amount for which I'd risk a 50% or 17% chance of dying, but for .00001%, sure. That's more or less what you're doing every time you drive to work. Maybe I'm off by an order of magnitude, I dunno.

[Alobar]

I bet a sixth of people who are 30 dont make it to sixty. (im only 26 BTW). I wouldntbe suprised if it was higher than that actually

[arabie]

I would take the bet any day. A great life or no life, you can't lose?

[chabibi]

id play russian roullete for a couple of bucks

its the same as the dice game i guess

[nothumb]

Yeah, if you include the rest of the world, for sure.

US, I'd say it's close.

NT

[BusterStacks]

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id play russian roullete for a couple of bucks

its the same as the dice game i guess

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B.S., do it then.

[Senor Choppy]

I'd do it just for yucks, if I didn't have any family or friends left to get upset over my death.

[nicky g]

I would do neither.

[beerbandit]

id take the dice --- because it is impossible to roll a one

easy billion there

cheers
beer