# I'd give my right arm for that!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-give-my-right-arm-for-that/654202>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 28, 2013, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-give-my-right-arm-for-that/654202 "2013-03-28T18:43:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-give-my-right-arm-for-that/654202/21 "2013-03-30T12:27:46Z")

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None. I don’t want another 20 years of life, thanks all the same. Appreciate the offer, though.

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**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-give-my-right-arm-for-that/654202/22 "2013-03-30T12:38:52Z")

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> [@RTFirefly](#):
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> A lot depends on how many good years you had to give up the use of the limb for, in order to get the extra 20 years. Still in my 50s, I wouldn’t. Ask me again in 20 years, and I’d probably think it was an excellent trade.

Actually I think you have this backward. At 20 I would probably have said hell yes; I’m having a great time and I’ll trade one leg for 20 extra years. At 66 I say no thanks; every year more things hurt and I don’t really want to go on with these wrinkles and this arthritis for an extra 20!

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**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-give-my-right-arm-for-that/654202/23 "2013-03-30T15:22:16Z")

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> None. I don’t want another 20 years of life, thanks all the same. Appreciate the offer, though.

Same here. Not that I want to die now or anything, but I’d rather have a “shorter” life and live it to the fullest, with all my limbs and senses.

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**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-give-my-right-arm-for-that/654202/24 "2013-03-30T19:17:23Z")

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> [@EmilyG](#):
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> Same here. Not that I want to die now or anything, but I’d rather have a “shorter” life and live it to the fullest, with all my limbs and senses.

Ditto this, and add, “with the people I love”. I’m starting to notice that friends and relatives are dying at a faster rate. Living life without the people I love would be excruciating (I don’t have kids).

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**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-give-my-right-arm-for-that/654202/25 "2013-03-30T19:29:52Z")

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> [@johnpost](#):
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> left nut.

> [@control-z](#):
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> Yeah I’d make that deal for another 20 years.

I already did, and it has been good for 14 years, so far…

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