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If you were offered a choice between financial security for life (whatever that means to you) or ten years of guaranteed good health, which would you choose?
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Financial security. Without a seconds thought.
I think I'd go for financial security. I've not had much luck creating it so far, and I think to a certain extent you can buy good health - top health care, good food, time to invest in fitness...
I suppose that's where personal definition of financial security comes into it!
I think part of why I'd go for the money is that I've never really had good health, so I don't know what I'm missing. Warped logic
Health - no point being rich if I feel too shit to enjoy it. In fact given I am always much healthier when skint financial security is clearly a big helath risk for me - but then again with financial security I could pay for whatever it takes to straighten my psychi out
nah still health - feeling great usually means I go for bigger things because they fit in with my whole view of life at the time. So I would expect the financial security to follow because i would make it so
Financial security - because I think the chances are my health will be OK for the next 10 years anyway so I'd take the gamble. I am interpreting financial security as being a lot better off than I am now though - not just knocking along being able to pay the mortgage kind of thing.
Health.
Other way round for me, I am more confident of my finances than my health.
I don't need a lot of money, but health makes such a difference
Good health.
However, financial security for life is probably something I will never truly have (at least not as I define it - which means not having to think about money as a consideration)......
As such, I would take a risk and go for the financial security for life, as long as there wasn't anything in the small print that said I had be unwell for the next ten years....
No small print
Financial security and good health are probably linked.
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As a few of you know I have not had any financial security recently - and its on a down turn againat the moment but I would still chose health - I can cope with lots of things so much better with good health.
I'd go for financial security over health because even if I then contracted some illness I'd want to know that my family were provided for and that even while I was ill that there were times when we could still enjoy things.
Had a health check a couple of weeks ago and appareantly I have a 5.37% chance of a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years - can't be complacent, some work to do, but financial security would go a long way to help lower that figure.
.Health for me. I don't like being unwell.
Financial security, becuae for me worrying about finances is a big part in making myself unwell. When things are Ok financially, I tend to be in a much better mental state - whic is just better for everyone all round.