Would you buy a lottery ticket with 99% odds of winning...

[Valiss]

Would you buy a lottery ticket with 99% odds of winning $1 million and 1% odds of dying?

[arbcoind]

I don't buy lottery tickets, so no I would not buy this one.

Gina

[Anna Iram]

Every day holds some small probability of death if you think about it. So in theory no different than any other day. Would I buy a ticket laying those odds out front like that? Kind of darkside Sawish for my tastes...probably not.

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

Yep, where is the line?

[Anna Iram]

Would it matter to you HOW you were to die, Gauwyn?

[Gauwyn of Bracknell]

Would it matter to you HOW you were to die, Gauwyn?

I'm counting on the 99%   so the dying just doesn't concern me.

[Merlin the Elder]

How much is the ticket?

[The Rabbi]

Only 1% that would be a big downsize for me but I think I would pass. Money has its advantages but a roof over my head, food on the table, and family and friends exceed a million dollars a hundred times over. i am good Thank you let some other soul deal with the money.

[Bob of the Lake]

Hmm...you can visit a lot of faires for $1 million, but not so many if you're dead. Then again, a 99% chance of living is better odds than crossing a street in Manhattan so I think I'd buy the ticket!

[SirRichardBear]

nope with odds like that the game has to be rigged and its a set up.  Never trust something that sounds to good to be true because it will be a trap.

[Merlin the Elder]

Those are a lot better odds than I was given to survive my last surgery.  Legitimate odds of 99 to 1, hell yes I'd do it.

[Lady Kett]

Agree with the legitimate odds...but...$1M isn't enough for me to do it. It'd have to be more than that before I'd even consider buying the ticket. Yes, I'm greedy with my lottery dreams.

[Hoowil]

I wuld want to make sure the two were mutually exclusive. It would just be my luck to get both. But yeah, probably. Especially if I get to choose how I die (asleep, of old age).