Easy decision, more life. I’m just so damn curious as to what will happen, and what sort of discoveries lay beyond my lifespan. I can always make more money, and the time would allow me to accomplish some of my dream projects, like making a feature animated film.
Life is too short and far more valuable than cash.
The last thing I want is an extended life. It’s already gone on longer than I expected.
The money, no question.
My luck, I would take the $100 million and the next day, with this economy, they would change the currency and that would be just enough to buy bread and milk.
Then again, the idea of living another 100 years…again, my luck you would have to work until you were 158 before you could retire. Just what I need to hear…another 90 years to work…
You certainly perked up my day.
The Money. Call me a sentimental fool, but I couldn’t bear the pain of seeing my loved ones pass on and just have to live out the very long end of my life alone and feeling detached from the rest, as interesting as it may be to witness things beyond my natural life. Also, good point above about having an extended “old age”.
Finally, no matter how long you live, you will always wonder what you won’t get to see. Maybe if the choice were between the money and 1000 years, fine. But for an additional 100 years? Nah!
I may be a sentimental fool, but I would be a sentimental fool with a ton of cash that could do me and mine a lot of good. Quality of life, as short as it may be.
You can live like a king for a little while, or live like everyone else for a long while.
I’d rather live like a king. Give me the money.
I’d take the extra 100 years.
I’m still young enough that I’d have at least another 50-60 “good” years ahead of me (and if I get to 75 in the same shape my father and grandfathers has/did, I’ll die healthy :)) Plus like you said, I can always bail out after using 75 of the extra 100… That ability is actually a plus rather than a minus, in my book!
I’m also enough of in introvert and a non-connector that having to move on, company-wise, every few decades would probably do me good.
And while I’m nowhere near rich, I’m comfortable enough economically, and could probably learn the new skills I’d need to remain employable and employed. I’m not that ambitious anyway, I just want to make enough to be comfortable 
T’will suck to see my kids go before me, but on the plus side I’ll get to spend lots of quality time seeing the (still hypothetical) grand- and grand-grand- children)
100 years, without a second thought. There’s so much things to do I’m in no hurry of dying.
And I wouldn’t even know what to do with $ 100 millions. That’s a ludicrous amount and I don’t need that kind of money. I live an acceptably comfortable life, and I’d appreciate it to last for a looong time.
Actually I’m surprised by the number of people who choose the money(*). I’ll read about their wealthy asses in history books when I’ll be 150.
(*)apart from those who did so for sentimental reasons. Personally, I’m single and childless…though over the course of a century, things might change
I’d take the life, especially because of this :
Which means I will have the option of suicide instead of, say, developing a nasty, horribly painful condition and being unable to die for 60 years.
I’d take the money.
It’s true that money doesn’t make you happy, but lack of money certainly makes you sad.
Also I’m 55 and already health problems are creeping in*.
Teeth fall out. It takes longer to get over a cold. You don’t sleep or even walk as well. Your bladder is less forgiving of delay. And the big ones (cancer, Alzheimers etc) loom up.
I don’t want decades of extra life as an invalid.
*don’t worry, I’m still happy!
In my office, overtime either nets you time-and-a-half in money or double time off (work four hours, get paid for six or take eight off).
I’ve learned a long time ago when it’s a choice between time and money, choose time. Money is easy, time is hard.
Why do I still have to earn a living if I have $100M?
Regards,
Shodan
Money without a second’s hesitation. My recurring nightmare is to outlive my child - 100 extra years pretty much guarantees that, so for that reason only, it’s of no interest to me.
Before she was born, I think I would have taken the time, for much the same reasons outlined above: a single lifetime doesn’t seem enough to do all I want to do.
Definitely the money. I’d rather be able to enjoy what life I have left; my current finances wouldn’t support me for another 100 years, nor would I be able to afford to get the training to qualify for another job.
With that kind of money I could also put some into improving my health, which would extend my life enough for me.
I’m surprised at the number of century-choosers here. Due mostly to lack of money quite a big part of my everyday life comprises of unispiring automaton actions. I don’t enjoy grocery shopping, or cooking, or sitting in the traffic, or washing the dishes, ad infinitum. 100 years more of that?!? With 100mil, I’d be able to forego all the toiling and concentrate on fascinating, fulfilling stuff. I’d still get 60+ years of superior life naturally. I’d get much more done simply because someone else would take care of the necessities.
My diet would effortlessly be extremely varied, tasty and healthy the year-round, instead of munching affordable, pesticide-loaded, crappy-tasting Spanish vegetables through the winter months. I’d have such great strength training equipment my motivation and lifts would keep on piling, while injury risk would go down. I’d be able to take my injuries and illnesses to the top specialists in medicine, greatly enhancing my life. I’d drive the safest, winter-and-moose-proof high-end Volvo available instead of a crappy beater I’m afraid to put my family into. I’d buy a huge piece of the dwindling old-growth forests here and basically shit myself for the joy of knowing at least those hectares won’t be torn down within my lifetime. I’d sponsor the kinds of events I always wanted to attend. I’d lead a very full life, long enough.
“Take the money, dummy!”
You only have to earn a living if you take the 100 years of life.
The Serlingesque irony, of course, is that advances in technology will grant everyone else a labor-free existence within 20 years, while the letter of your supernatural pact specifies that you are exempt. So for the rest of your unnaturally extended lifespan, you will be the only laborer on the planet.
The money. $100 Million dollars? What I could do with that…and I won’t outlive my own kids.
Plus, when the Singularity comes in 20 years, I’ll feel like a tit when everyone else gets to live for millennia anyway.
Money, for sure.
I don’t (and won’t) have any kids so I won’t be seeing grandkids grow up. But I would lose a lot of doggy friends in 100 years. If I were a parent I couldn’t bear the thought of outliving my kids, tho.
As for what I’d do with the money, what Toxylon said. And charity.
Money. I’m going to grow old and die alone as it is, why spend another 100 years doing that? Might as well have security during the years I am here, and be able to help others during life and at my death.
Bah, give me the time. I already think this about loved ones older than me. The hudred mil would be nice, but it isn’t worth anything to you once you are in the ground. Even with the 100 extra years I wouldn’t come close to doing all the things I want to, but it would be an improvement.
The same is already true for any of us who have lost a grandparent or parent, or god forbid, wife or child. The lost loved ones generally don’t stop people from living their lives.