Win a lottery when you're old

Philippines
March 13, 2010 7:21pm CST
Would you still like to win a lottery even if you're around 97 years old? Like what I've read in newspaper about a man from Vietnam who's 97 years old, live in poverty and suddenly win a lottery jackpot. What will you do if you won a lottery at that age? how will you spend the money?
7 responses
@danitykane (3183)
• Philippines
14 Mar 10
hi care, Oh, maybe I'll give it to my children and grandchildren so that I'll be able to help them better their lives in a way. I'll be so happy by then, although I'm poor and in that case it is a bit too late to spend all my money still, it gives me hope to put my family in good place where they will not suffer poverty anymore.
• Philippines
14 Mar 10
Hello danitykane, you've got a real good idea and plans with that huge amount of money. Your family will be grateful and happy for you and there will be lots of them who will pray for you to get in heaven.lol Anyway thank you for sharing with us and enjoy your day!
• Philippines
14 Mar 10
Hahaha! yeah.. I need their prayers so bad. Need to be in heaven. TC!
• Philippines
14 Mar 10
what will i do with my money if i cant enjoy using it as no airlines will going to accept a 97 years old person to travel around the world. nor i cant even enjoy it even if i use it for a vacation and buy everything what i want coz by that time im sure im already a bed ridden person. if i have kids then maybe i will give it to them for them to start a good life, buy their own house, car and business or maybe i will just put up an institution under my name, like a school nor hospital so that if i die people will still remember me.
• Philippines
15 Mar 10
Yeah, that could be a bit sad as we can't fully enjoy the money for our self. But it could truly makes us happy as the best thing we can do is to share and give it to others. By making other people lives easier and productive with the money we give then we'll leave this world with a fulfilled heart. Anyway thank you for sharing with us and enjoy your day!
• Philippines
14 Mar 10
I think age doesn't matter for those people that are really determined to win and get out of poverty with lottery. If I will be in that age and I will win the lottery, well I should eat all kinds of food that I haven't tasted yet. Maybe I will still have few more days to spend or travel around. But if I have some children or grandchildren that have taken good care of me even if I am at that old age, I think I will give them a good life first before thinking of what I can do for myself because I have few more years left and while my children and grandchildren still have long life to live. So, maybe I will buy them a good and nice house that I wasn't able to have and experienced because of poverty. Or maybe pays the tuition fees ahead so that they can go to school even if i am gone, so that in the future even if i am gone, they will have a good life ahead of them.
• Boston, Massachusetts
14 Mar 10
if i will be given the chance to win the lottery when i reached that old age... i will be thankful for the blessings that comes my way before i bid goodbye to the world. at least i experienced the feeling and the reality of being rich. since i am already old, i will reward the person or groups who took care of me and stand by me through thick and thin. the rest of my money i will ask my two sons who have autism and by that time are already fully mainstreamed and functional to established a foundation for special kids. we will provide special education and appropriate services, therapies and interventions for them to be mainstreamed. we can even go further by providing them vocational training and even employing them so that they will become productive citizen of the country.
• Philippines
14 Mar 10
Lucky for him. Should I win the lottery at his age, I will share the winnings with my immediate family, kids, grandkids and great-grandkids.
• Singapore
14 Mar 10
Yes,of course,why not,lol!Even if you are 97 years old or more,you still can use those money in useful ways!You are old,yes,but you still have your family members who you can give part of the money to,and you can donate another part of the money for social foundations to help unlucky people!
@ibuemma (2953)
• United States
14 Mar 10
why not? I mean you still can give that money for the children, grand children, etc, etc..hey, like new your lottery said "you'll never know"