Scenario: you worked until your 50's/60's and invested wisely like a good boy. You just retired formally and you are never looking back. At a quick check-up before you and your significant other take a trip to Bora Bora you go to a doctor and find out you have an extremely aggressive form of cancer/dementia that will leave you bedridden in 1.5 years and likely a vegetable in 2.
You have all this money saved up for retirement but your time to spend it is drastically reduced. What do you do the last 2 years of your life with millions of dollars at your disposal? Remember, you're in your 50's/60's.
Also, please no 'OH YEAH WELL I'M GONNA RETIRE AT 35 SO FUCK YOU' or 'OH YEAH WELL NOBODY IN MY FAMILY HAS EVER HAD CANCER SO I GUESS THE QUESTION DOESN'T APPLY TO ME' shitposts.
Christopher Ross
This is exactly what happened to my dad. He retired at 66, 1 year later he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Slowly became a vegetable then died
Jordan Parker
Cry like a bitch for a month then go on a bender that hopefully kills me before the disease.
This is one of those "life sucks; then you die" scenarios. The best you can really do is to distribute your wealth in a way that brings you the most happiness. At least to hopefully feel that all your hard work wasn't in vain.
Dylan Gray
I would buy the most luxury RV I could find, travel around the USA to the best resorts. Leave great tips, the best cocaine, beautiful escorts. Then leave my house and fucking pimped out RV to Paul who used to come visit his dad once a month, not like Kara who went to live in Germany with her nigger husband who I told her not to marry. They won't see a dime of what I got.
Then at the end of it all, go sky diving without a parachute because that would be an awesome way to go out.
Anthony Jackson
If you're a single man with no kids in your 50s, that's an easier question to answer. But, with a wife and possibly kids, your options may be a little more limited.
Most people really won't be able to just go on a bender and spend it all because your wife will still need something left. And you may want to leave something for your kids too.
If you're being boring about it, take your half of the retirement money, set aside 10-20% for the kids, and blow through it on booze and cruises.
Or, maybe you decide to take a fishing trip with your wife, and she unfortunately falls in the water. Then, you'll have to go to Thailand and go on an actual bender. But only out of grief, of course.
Jayden Smith
What would your significant other think?
Samuel Turner
Wish this happened to every baby boomer
Charles Allen
Get my will in order, break the news to my kids, and resign myself to seeing out my final months in a care home on the strongest painkillers money can buy. Probably put a euthanasia plan in place if I was going to be a vegetable/demented.
Not much else I *could* do, is there? I'd be consoled by the knowledge that my hard work will provide for my family.
Brayden Smith
If I was single: hookers, booze, hire a dozen hitmen to kill every cunt who has ever crossed me from kindergarten to date, charter a private 747 full of dynamite and bacon and crash it in Mecca as payback for 9/11.
Wyatt Collins
>Work your ass off, you're probably 1% richer than your parents >Don't work your ass off, you're probably 1% poorer than your parents Have kids Don't have kids
They won't give a shit about you either way. See Your life has no meaning but don't whine about it, go to >>/r9k/ for that faggotry
Anthony Diaz
Dump it all into the powered exoskeleton that I would have finished designing by that age and go right some wrongs in this world.
James Ortiz
its not a whining/existential thread
just a 'you put in decades of hard work just to die/be bedridden 1-2 years into your playtime years, what would you do if life handed you this card' thread
to be frank its a reality a lot of people face. there's like 5 guys in my firm that are in their late 50's and diabetic/fat as fuck that probably won't enjoy their retirement because they'll be dead or on 20 different medications they have to take daily
and while something like diabetes is the fault of the person, stuff like cancer or dementia can happen to you even if you do everything right
Mason Walker
do as much as I can for jesus , since i know i am going to be standing to be judged very soon. store up treasures in heaven thru winning souls and spreading good news and having my money make a maximum impact since i am about to go to my new eternal home
Jeremiah Rodriguez
This is the best troll answer so far
Oliver Jenkins
>to be frank its a reality a lot of people face. there's like 5 guys in my firm that are in their late 50's and diabetic/fat as fuck that probably won't enjoy their retirement because they'll be dead or on 20 different medications they have to take daily
Those five guys fucked themselves over by not setting goals for their retirement. Every young person, at the point where they begin to create regular income, should have their exit strategy figured out.
What is the point? Do you intend for your retirement funds to be insurance against your physical and/or mental inability to work as you age, or your ability to compete in the job market? Or is it to simply avoid working? Take vacations and trips and such? If the latter is so, why are you waiting until the sunset of your life to do these things? What about your children? Are you going to leave them a significant inheritance? Set up college and trust funds for your grandchildren? Who here doesn't think it would be great to have this kind of help at various points in your life?
There are too many people out there who just dump money into various retirement funds and plans without considering these things. I don't have a lot of sympathy for someone who retires not having disbursements for these planned out, any more than I do an 18-year-old burning through college funds with no thought as to a degree path.
Alexander Reed
>control-f "charity" >0 matches You people are selfish faggots.
Jayden Hughes
your gonna find out the only troll is you , when your soul is judged for rejecting jesus and you must spend eternity in hell.
Jack Jones
I'm not sure what a soul, a jeebus, or a hell is. I've never seen one and I don't think they exist.
you wouldn't be lying to me, would you?
Alexander Moore
you're lying to yourself.
Henry Smith
Holy fuck FINE, she can come too
Jason Bailey
Consider that your religion is the bastard child of Zoroastrianism, Paganism, and ancient Canaanite religion. And yet, out of all the thousands of other "one true religion"s out there in the world, yours is special because mommy and daddy told you about it when you were a young and impressionable child.
Lincoln Butler
>he doesn't practice Christianity out of reverence for the European pagan traditions upon which his ancestors built this great civilization
Why don't you just be life partners with a "Syrian" "child" "refugee" already
Anthony Diaz
You might as well practice paganism directly then. I agree that it can make sense to practice a religion in a cultural heritage context, but practicing modern consumerized christianity is pleb-tier at best. If I were religious, I would at least be into something more genuine.
Adrian Stewart
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Gabriel Reyes
>I agree that it can make sense to practice a religion in a cultural heritage context, but practicing modern consumerized christianity is pleb-tier at best.
So don't practice modern, consumerized Christianity. Listen to yourself, it's like if you said you couldn't eat hamburgers because McDonald's exists.
Jordan Rivera
lol. you dont know anything about me. or what i've been thru and seen. just shows your own immaturity
Noah Flores
Are you one of those born again Christian fags?
Go peddle your bullshit on facebook where it belongs.
Cameron Sanders
i'm not selling anything. i was answering a very serious and personal question to op, when ppl started attacking me.
Kevin Lopez
Personally, I would take all the money, convert it to gold and store it in multiple third party vaults in safe countries across the world (Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong) that my child(ren) can open in like 10 years.
I'd also start writing my will, see who in my family wants what.
I'd take a few thousand dollars and visit places I always wanted to see. Kotor Montenegro, Prague Czech Rep., St. Petersburg Russia, all around Tibet, I always wanted to see a Harpy Eagle (favorite animal) in South America in real life as well so I'd visit there. Maybe those mountains in Peru.
Finally I'll either retreat to some secluded place where I can make my peace with God and that sort of stuff and quietly wither away.
William James
I see a lot of old homeless people out on the street. I guess it would be better to have a couple of years of wealth than many years of poverty.
Tyler Harris
Lots of homeless people were never even living in poverty before they got on the skag.
Carter Richardson
Buy bitcoin and delete the private key.
Jaxon Reyes
meme
Jackson Miller
Try to set the record for cocaine consumed.
Lincoln Scott
Why would i wait until 50 to retire? I plan to be retired in my 30s.
Dominic Hall
Provided that I would have brought kids into the world, I'd probably take care of all my will/estate-planning as fast as I could.
In the meantime, I'd also write out a suicide note, and then plan a day on which I would dress in my best, drive out to the countryside, and shoot myself.
And I guess all the while I'd try to enjoy the little things of everyday life..
Ian Scott
What's best for America--for the World.
Grayson Allen
OH YEAH WELL I'M GONNA RETIRE AT 35 SO FUCK YOU
Hudson Ross
Shits over anyway at that age, Id just enjoy the time I have left with travelling and hobbies, give the money to the kids (or wife if we dont have kids)
Noah Scott
I pay escorts and prostitutes to do the dirtiest imaginable things ever with my old body and film it all on tape, maybe even arrange a contract with some porn studio to do this....nah, they wouldn't like my crazy shit.