Hypothetical question

If you were offered a choice between financial security for life (whatever that means to you) or ten years of guaranteed good health, which would you choose?

Financial security. Without a seconds thought.

I think I'd go for financial security. I've not had much luck creating it so far, and I think to a certain extent you can buy good health - top health care, good food, time to invest in fitness...

I suppose that's where personal definition of financial security comes into it!

I think part of why I'd go for the money is that I've never really had good health, so I don't know what I'm missing. Warped logic

Health - no point being rich if I feel too shit to enjoy it.  In fact given I am always much healthier when skint financial security is clearly a big helath risk for me - but then again with financial security I could pay for whatever it takes to straighten my psychi out

nah still health - feeling great usually means I go for bigger things because they fit in with my whole view of life at the time.  So I would expect the financial security to follow because i would make it so

Financial security - because I think the chances are my health will be OK for the next 10 years anyway so I'd take the gamble.   I am interpreting financial security as being a lot better off than I am now though - not just knocking along being able to pay the mortgage kind of thing.  

Health.

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Financial security - because I think the chances are my health will be OK for the next 10 years anyway

Other way round for me, I am more confident of my finances than my health.

I don't need a lot of money, but health makes such a difference

Good health.

Are you saying that if you chose the financial security you would have bad health?

No small print

Ah ok, in that case I think I'm healthy enough and 10 years is not a long time. I'm going with the cash for sure.

Financial security and good health are probably linked.

As a few of you know I have not had any financial security recently - and its on a down turn againat the moment but I would still chose health - I can cope with lots of things so much better with good health. 

I'd go for financial security over health because even if I then contracted some illness I'd want to know that my family were provided for and that even while I was ill that there were times when we could still enjoy things.

Had a health check a couple of weeks ago and appareantly I have a 5.37% chance of a heart attack or stroke in the next 10 years - can't be complacent, some work to do, but financial security would go a long way to help lower that figure.