How much do you value your life?

[Guruman]

so, I set the price at 4 million each (since I couldn't bear the people I would attract should I come into much more money than that) and I WON!

Then while celebrating in the street I was hit by a truck and killed.

As I'm floating on up into the sky I realized that this is a good bet to take for even less money because I was never guaranteed to keep on living past today anyway. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[etgryphon]

reminds me of another short Story.

'The Lottery' by Shirley Jackson.

Great story...

As for the OP:

I think I would take 10 million for the same odds as it would be to skydive or scuba dive.

-Gryph

[crookedhat99]

how much would you guys have to get paid to try a foot long putt for your life? 2 foot? 3 foot?

what wishes would have to be granted to try a 6 foot, 10 foot, 50 foot putt for your life? (think altruistically)

[Dominic]

make it a cool million and I'd gamble. I figure if i cant win a 100-1 shot, i dont deserve to live.

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Not sure if there's any amount of money I would do this for. Being an atheist, I know there will be nothing when I do. I'd much rather be alive with no money than dead. Plus I'm still young and have the best years of my life to go through. My answer might change if I was 45 with a old, fat wife and kids asking for college money.

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You have a lot to learn about life. My wife and kid are the reason I'd never ever do this for any amount of money.

Marlow

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Now what would your wife say if she saw you calling her old and fat?

[Dominic]

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Also under the "my life is not mine to gamble with" category: I would never risk causing such grief to Gilbert, my parents, my brother, my grandmother, my best friends, and a whole lot of other people who care about me.

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Godfried??

[Skip Brutale]

I wouldnt do it for less than like 5 million.

[Vish]

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Not sure if there's any amount of money I would do this for. Being an atheist, I know there will be nothing when I do. I'd much rather be alive with no money than dead. Plus I'm still young and have the best years of my life to go through. My answer might change if I was 45 with a old, fat wife and kids asking for college money.

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You have a lot to learn about life. My wife and kid are the reason I'd never ever do this for any amount of money.

Marlow

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Do you drive a car? Do you eat food that you haven't prepared yourself? Hell, do you leave the house? If so, you take chances every day that jeopardize your life and therefore the well being of your wife and kids.

Why is it that whenever someone puts this in terms of a wager, people get self-righteous about how they wouldn't risk their lives for any amount of money?

[Xhad]

One point you're missing; I can decline this raffle and still have a fully functioning life. If we try to eliminate all risks, WE CANNOT LIVE.

Too many people in this thread (especially the people who would apparently do it for $3 if the raffle takes less than two minutes) seem to be missing the fact that it's not how the bet stands on its own individual merits rather than how it compares to the action of not taking a bet. Kind of like people who in a poker hand, view one line of action, then rather than compare its EV to every possible play, they just compare it to zero and say "It's +EV and therefore correct," which is false. In this case, you can take N life-threatening risks, or N+1 life-threatening risks, and the point being made is that poster doesn't want to take any extraneous risks.

[Vish]

What defines an extraneous risk? Should I only drive to work and back everyday? Should I stop driving to the pool hall, just because I could die in an accident? I don't need to play pool to survive.