I saw this while browsing through random blogs of people and thought it's interesting enough for me to talk about.

You are given 2 choices. A choice of US$1,000,000 (a million), or one final hour with your dying father and mother, both of whom you’ll never ever get to see again. You can only pick one, forfeiting the other..

The most politically correct answer that I think many people would give or have given is that they would choose to spend that final hour with their dying father and mother. It seems that family bond is the most important thing in the world and many people can't live without it. If that is truly the case, why are there so many cases of divorce that I've heard or read about in the newspapers? Or the increasing number of old people that are being send to old folks' home? Or the increased number of studio flats being built by the goverment to house the senior citizens because their children do not want them any more? Basically, everyone wants people to think highly of them, to think that they're taking good care of their parents or what nots. That's why the answer of spending the final hour with the dying parents is the choice that many people would have chosen.

Personally for me, I would choose that $1,000,000. Now before you start thinking of this and that, hear my reasoning out. Ignoring my rants about parents in many of my previous posts, I would answer this question from a neutral point of view. Firstly, death is inevitable and we somehow have been preparing for it ever since we've had someone close to us pass away. From the question, it's obvious that the parents are sick since they're "dying". If it's a quick death, let's say an airplane crash or a heart attack, I would definitely have chosen the oppurtunity to spend time with the parents.

But in the case of dying parents, would you have wanted to prolong their sufferings? I'm sure you wouldn't want to have the last memories of your parents to be them hanging onto their life by a thread with support systems all aver their body. What good would an extra hour make? Can you miraculously create a new medicine that can save their lifes? Or are you just going to spend that extra entire hour crying by their bedsides, because deep down in your heart, you know that they're still going to die?

I guess for me, when I think about it, I'm thinking about the future and not the past. The past are memories that will forever be with you. The times you spend with the parents could have probably made up for their death. That extra hour may probably just be something that you seek solace from, where you seek forgiveness and blablabla. Imagine what that $1,000,000 could do. Pay for your rent, school fees or even get you a house. So for me, what good would an extra painful hour make when you could have spent a whole entire lifetime with them.

That's why I would choose the $1,000,000.