I would love to do it, once my little kids are grown.
Yes, please.
Is anybody out there genuinely offering this wonderful service?
Hell yeah. Show me where to sign up. I could do that standing on my head.
My biggest problem? After it was all over I probably wouldn’t want to leave.
Like a lot of people, I think this sounds ideal. However, I recently read an article in the New Yorker about Supermax prisons and how most of the inmates have severe psychological problems caused by the extreme social isolation. (I believe they are confined alone in their cells for 23.5 hours a day.) I don’t know if having pets, access to the outside air whenever you want, and the ability to call the whole thing off would be enough to stave off severe and possibly permanent psychological damage. I’m not going to be the test case, at any rate. A month for $20,000 I would do in an instant, though.
I’d bet my mental stability against a million dollars that it would be enough. The worst I see happening is holding conversations with cats and dogs, aloud, for the rest of my life. Plenty of people do that already. 
Just a taste from the New Yorker article:
And:
Full article here. (It’s really long.)
That million dollars is looking worse and worse to me.
I think it would be really difficult, but I’d still do it. I always thought that if I ever wound up in prison, at least I’d finish that novel. (I’m a journalist/columnist and my friends and colleagues always say I should write a book-- they’ve convinced me that if I did it might not be terrible.)
I think it would be lonely and difficult, but given that I’m single and currently underemployed, it’d be tough to turn down.
Interesting article. The great thing about this deal, though, is that if you find yourself screaming obscenities at the TV or bashing your head against the wall, you may simply take your accrued money and leave. Also, I have a hard time believing that, with all the entertainment at my disposal in this nice house, I’d go nuts in a year. But maybe. Still, I’d certainly try. Ideally, my husband could take the same deal in another house at the same time, and we’d be set!
I would do that for substantially less than a million, and I would not develop psychosis. Psychopaths are pussies.
When Trinity House automated all the Lighthouses they ruined my childhood dream job!
Okay not a lot of opportunity for photography with your offer that a remote lighthouse would offer and am not sure I could raise the million to pay you. But I cannot see any downside to this. Sign me up!!
Very interesting responses. I have noticed for very shy people we sort of live without human contact most of the time so it would be easier for us to do it for a year.
Wow, this has always been a fantasy of mine a reflection if you will about how I have always felt. Completely isolated, alone in the vast ocean.
Trinity House actually rent out refurbished lighthouse keeper cottages for holiday rents. But they are all in “nice” locations. Not like some of these places!
http://www.lighthouse.net.au/liGhTS/Bulletin/0612/rock_lighthouses.htm
hijack over 
I’m confident I could do this easily.
The hardest part would be not being able to let my family and friends know that I was absolutely, perfectly, 100% fine. They’d obviously be aware that I could leave any time, but I would prefer for them to know that I wasn’t struggling to get through it, but rather, winging it.
I’d do it. $1 000 000 is real money in my neck of the woods. I’d never have to work again. My wife would understand. I’d keep checking in on her and my daughter via one-way webcam, I guess. She can always check the weblogs to see that I’m still thinking of them. (I’m assuming that doesn’t violate the agreement?)
Just think of the paintings and craft projects I could finish.
Wait - is everything I order while in the house on my tab or the billionaire’s?
Oh good lord. Sure I’d do it, assuming the dollar is at its present value & not about to collapse. Just give me notebooks so I can write things down.
The real question is, why would anyone want me to do this?
I’d do it. Except you almost had me at the “you can have pets” clause, but lost me at the “you can’t get vet care” clause. I couldn’t let my dog live with someone else for a year. He’s too attached to me. And I sure as hell wouldn’t give him away permanently.
I’d pay a million dollars to forgo all human contact for one year.
I can lock you up in my apartment. Wanna?
I would think things like shooters and WoW wouldn’t be allowed, because you’d be interacting with other people online. Joining a squad and going out to accomplish a goal is most certainly “interaction”, whether you talk or not.
It the billionaire agreed that academic collaboration wasn’t actually human contact (because, seriously, have you seen the peer review process), i’d be sorely tempted. Well, i would have two weeks ago. Now, new girl, giddy happy phase, etc.