How important is the manner in which you die?

[Siegmund]

If you choose option A, you can do a damn sight better than "leaving a good legacy, at least as good as any other billionaire." Publish your predictions of your untimely fall and painful death, along with a few vague references to the influence your legacy will have after you are gone. Put a few key papers in a sealed vault.

People will forget the name of Jesus who did this on a smaller scale a while back, and remember yours for the rest of eternity. (They will also forget the name of your torturers and their cause. Those were NAMELESS Roman soldiers who whipped him and nailed him to the stake.) Now THAT is a Legacy with a capital L.

I think I have enough ideas about how the world ought to work for the next few thousand years, which people currently are unwilling to listen to, that a week of suffering is a damn small price for the amount of (in my view) positive change I can do for the world.

The extra bonus of getting to achieve a lot of things I'd like to do while still alive, and of banging the hot chicks, is just icing on the cake.

[A_C_Slater]

Anyone who chooses option A probably isn't really taking the time to think about what a week of torture using the OP's described methods would be like. Option B for me and it's not even close. I wouldn't even be able to enjoy the hot Playboy sex because I would know what it will end up costing me. You would view the hot chicks as some kind of evil demons if your life was preordained in this way.

[chaosuk]

I think the dilemma is better imagined if your memory of the were wiped of the scenario as soon as you made your choice.

I once posed a question on a forum as follows:

You accidentally rub a lamp and a genie appears, as a reward he offers you 3 choices.

In two weeks times you win the lottery:

1. you win $150,000 put in it in the bank and still have it in 6 months

2. You win $3 million, only to find out there was a clerical error a few days later, and in fact win $200k.
Again your investment is safe inn 6 months

3. You win $5 million but make some terrible investments and wind up with $400k in 6 months.

After your choice you'll remember nothing of your encounter with the genie, which do you choose?

[chezlaw]

option B sounds kinda nice. I might go for that anyway.

chez

[madnak]

Well, you could also, oh, cure cancer in the meantime. Jesus? C'mon. You could be a real savior of humanity.

[Nielsio]

That's not how life works. What exactly is the point of all this.

[DMACM]

Everyones idea of a perfect, meaningful, life is different. I for one would feel fulfilled in having 4 daughters. However, given that your life is thousands of weeks a good life would be worth, to me, one bad week at the end. Option A.

[morphball]

I can't remember the exact quote, or the name of the chief who said it, but

"The last thing we shall ever do is die, do it well."

[lord_li]

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I would like to die like my Father did, peacefully in his sleep, rather than die like his passengers, screaming!

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lol! I could not stop laughing after reading this. Genius.

[LadyWrestler]

Option B, substituting below average looking husband (not sooo bad) for wife in my case. I have a feeling, now that I am over 30 (32), that 65 creeps up on ya much faster than most realize. I am sure, that, at 65 (in fact at least from 55 on), I would be darn glad I took option B.