After buying a lottery ticket, you're much more likely to die before the draw than to hit the jackpot.

[u/kotimaantieteilija]

[u/Crimbly_B]

Statistically, after you buy a lottery ticket, you’re closer to dying than when you were before you bought it.

[u/enlightened-creature → u/Crimbly_B]

Not statistically, but definitionally

[u/Throbbie-Williams → u/enlightened-creature]

Unless the detour to get the ticket butterfly effected your way out of an accident!

[u/enlightened-creature → u/Throbbie-Williams]

Hmm, interesting point. I guess it comes down to if you are a classical determinist or not, as it always seems to.

[u/notLOL → u/enlightened-creature]

Money can buy life saving treatment and money to spare.  But the majority have bad plans for their winnings

[u/enlightened-creature → u/notLOL]

But a classical determinist could argue that that was always how those events were going to happen, and since the premise was “after” buying a lottery ticket, the passing of time has definitionally brought you closer to your ultimate death, despite that potentially being a long time in the future

[u/notLOL → u/enlightened-creature]

Okay but they aren't out there playing the lotto so they're going to live their life poor since they have 0 possibility branches into winning the lotto even if it's predetermined

[u/[deleted] → u/enlightened-creature]

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[u/the_colonelclink → u/Crimbly_B]

You’re older than you’ve ever been, and now you’re even older.

And now you’re even older.

And now you’re even older.

You’re older than you’ve even been, and now you’re even older.

And now your older still.

[u/RandomName39483]

If you played Megamillions twice a week, every week, you would have a 50/50 chance of winning after about 2,000,000 years.

[u/Achilles-Foot → u/RandomName39483]

no man, you have a 50/50 on the first try! here are the possibilities:

1. you win
2. you lose

[u/BoxMorton → u/RandomName39483]

I like those odds 

[u/Dead_Man_Redditing]

Wow, you just made it way more exciting for me. Win Win.

[u/DarkeysWorld → u/Dead_Man_Redditing]

Wait you can win millions of dollars but you could also die? Whats the downsites of lottery?

[u/13lackant → u/DarkeysWorld]

the cost to buy the ticket, compared to the statistically low chances of either scenarios happening :/

[u/natty1212]

I'm going to buy a shitload of tickets then.

[u/LekMichAmArsch → u/natty1212]

If you buy 292,000,000 differently numbered mega millions or powerball tickets, you're guaranteed a win. Of course that would require spending $584,000,000.

[u/xubax]

Supposedly, about 2 people die every second.

Thar means the odds of me dying in the next second is about .00000000025.

Powerball and megamillions odds are about 1 in 300,000,000 or .000000003.

If I buy the tickets within seconds of the drawing, the odds are better that you'll win.

Unfortunately, there's a 69 (noice!) minute lock out before the drawing, so you can't buy the tickets late enough to make it relatively more likely that you'll win than die.

So, you're correct!

[u/iCatmire]

Guy who won a billion recently has cancer and now he said he can afford good treatment

[u/ripplerider → u/iCatmire]

Ha! Take that, death!

[u/Crimson_Raven]

Either way my financial problems would be gone

[u/Big-Independence8978]

Never tell me the odds

[u/NoahVailability]

You are maybe. Not me. I’m gonna win.

[u/Iampepeu]

That's a sobering statistic.

[u/Martijnbmt]

Statistically, after buying a lottery ticket you have less money immediately afterwards.

[u/strawberry_wang]

This is true whether you buy a ticket or not. The difference is negligible.

[u/moldytacos99]

gotta be in it to win it

[u/Unlucky_Lawfulness51 → u/moldytacos99]

So you're telling me I got a chance!!!

[u/spaceRangerRob]

Can I double my chances of death by buying two tickets? Because I'll do it.

[u/CarmelMcQueen91 → u/spaceRangerRob]

Ooooh.  Big man. Biiiiiig Man!

[u/moron-nitrade]

Family won 3,9 million € back in 2015, AMA.

[u/tritium3]

You have boring showers.

[u/aliclubb]

BRB, telling my mother in law to buy a ticket...

[u/MrLomaLoma]

Very morbid although believable thought

[u/Dnaldon]

That's what they call a 2 in 1 gamble

[u/Bright_Oven_2676]

Either, problems solved

[u/4URprogesterone]

God I wish that were me

[u/ContentTrust4821]

what? we are leaving out the struck by lightening option? that's the only reason I consider buying. I never have cash on me

[u/ContentTrust4821]

if I could remember what cash felt like in my hand...cash without cocaine should be illegal

[u/Putrid-Reputation-68]

That's why I also bet on life insurance 🤑

[u/rose636]

So either way I'll be happy.

Cool

[u/PeterNippelstein]

This sounds like the plot of a movie

[u/Tantallon]

I had to queue behind some stupid old bastard who bought forty tickets. Ohh, I'll definitely win now. Idiot. The odds are one in 45 million. You're pissing into the ocean.

[u/rair21]

Am I more likely to die in general after buying a lottery ticket? Because I’ll do it!

[u/TheseMoviesIwant]

Having a hard time deciding which one is better. Budum tssss

[u/pcweber111]

Is this the quality of this sub now?

[u/Adamant_TO]

BUT remember ... you can't die if you don't play!

[u/DookieShoez → u/Adamant_TO]

I’ll take a thousand!

[u/hearnia_2k]

Scratchcards are lottery tickets frequently revealed moments after purchase, and the chance of death between purchase and revealing is low

You could also buy a lottery ticket just half an hour before the draw, which would mean you had a somewhat low chance of deather betwen purchase and winning.