I want you to think about this for a while.....

[Kopikatsu]

I would use it to hire and equip a team of mercenaries to steal that 'Will-exterminate-half-of-human-life-on-earth-if-released' virus. Then unleash it on Vatican City.

If I'm going down, everyone is going down.

 

[DeathChairOfHell]

I'd buy lots and lots of nuclear bombs, then let the world know that if I go down, I'm taking it all with me by unleashing them ALL over the globe.

 

[BRex21]

1) everyone in my family would get a trust fund to assure that there needs are met in the future.
2) I would get myself a really kickass funeral suit!
3) Since i disapprove of the administrative angles of most charities, i would probably spend the rest trying to develop some sort of agricultural and financial stability in Africa. That is a country that sorely needs an economy.

 

[Naeo]

Put enough aside for my brother and sister so that they can make it through college without having to worry about money. Do the same for a few of my closest friends (and not tell the others, because holy shit that would be awful if they found out). Right there is probably a few million down the drain. Donate a hefty sum of a few million to my university to establish a scholarship and then to my residential college to do with as they see fit. The rest goes to my family to do with as they see fit.

 

[The Funslinger]

Have someone smelt me a coffin of gold, encrusted with diamonds. Then pay someone to build me a big tomb, with antechambers full of things I'll need in the afterlife. Then I want a suit of armour in the same fashion as my coffin to wear while I decompose. Then have someone scrawl random runes and symbols on the walls to confuse future archaeologists.

Thank you! I was getting tired of all the "ooh, look at what a wonderful human being I am" responses.

Realistically, I'd put it in an account and have my will state that the contents of that account be given to my family and then live it up for that month. Don't need to worry about my body, so it's drug experimentation, sex, strippers and alcohol for me, with probably some heavy gaming when I take the odd breather. I doubt I'd make that much of a dent in 1 billion even then.

 

[Auron225]

Donate it all and wait to die. One month of my happiness doesn't compare to saving the lives of people.

 

[Devin Curry]

I would invest it in a not-dying-machine, so even if I die before it is made, others would be able to use its benefits if they suddenly got only 1 month to live and a billion dollars.(although it would probably cost a billion dollars, so...)

Either that or I'll give it to Valve to buy everyone a copy of Half-Life 2: Episode 3 when it comes out. (although it can backfire and they'll most likely keep the project in unfinished so they'd keep all of my money so they can afford Gabe Newell's lunch)

 

[Darh Abdomino]

Donate to NASA for the purpose of developing an FTL device. If (in the unlikely scenario) they manage to create it and (in the slightly-below-impossible-scenario) they do it in less than a month, I use it and ride it out, thereby extending my time limit for the grateful world to develop a cure for my condition. Or buy the greatest gaming rig known to man, buying Mass Effect 3 early, and playing that and Battlefield 3 while listening to "Don't fear the Reaper". Depends on whether I'm feeling lazy.

 

[imnot]

A huge pyramid to be buried in, also fill the pyramid with dead Zebras.
Yeah screw you future historians!

 

[jpoon]

Everyone I care about would live the rest of their lives without debt, finally. They would also get their own personal stash of raw gold bullion and be trained how to use it properly (that would take time but I'd have a market specialist do it even if I were gone), anyone in their right mind knows that the dollar isn't worth the paper it's printed on and is no hedge at all against inflation and deflation.

That would be about the best thing I could ever do for the people I care about.

After that I would go have some fun for a month and say goodbye to the planet I've been spending most of my time on...

Everything left over after my death would be donated to local food producers (farmers and charitable organizations) in the state I live in, hopefully they could keep as many people fed and happy as long as possible.

 

[MidnightSt]

1. pay off all the debts
2. hire the guy that made Braid and Limbo, as well as their graphics designers and musician from Bastion, finish the design document of my game and have them start working on it.
3. buy a flat for my girlfriend
4. buy Fiat Punto, have it hippie-painted and give it to my ex-gf
5. take my GF on a 3-week travel around the world, sometimes skyping with the team working on my game, explaining my vision and all the important things.
6. Write a last will where i'd divide the remaining money among my gf, family, some of the people i owe(d), some appropriately large sum to the development team under the condition that they keep to design document even if they personally don't like what they're developing, and some nice sum to a political party that promises decriminalization of marijuana, if they actually make it.
7. Make my mum swear that the text on my tombstone will be "Parse error: Unexpected End Of Life on "
8. Publish a music cd, or at least give all my songs to someone and pay them to publish it.

 

[Techno Squidgy]

You learn that you are going to die in a month and you where also given 1 billion dollars to do with as you pleased. What would you do during that time and what would you do with the money?

Well, first of all I'd convert it to a proper currency...
I don't know what I'd do with it though. Take care of my family I guess, then use what's left over for personal enjoyment. Thrill-seeking, drug-taking, partying. Anything left over, give to a charity of some sort. Probably put it into Stem-cell research or cancer research. Maybe even give to NASA or the ESA. Every little helps, right?

 

[moonlantern]

One month isn't long enough. I'd probably go into a state of catatonic indecision and do nothing.

 

[somonels]

Buy access to a WMD and turn it over to my country's defence forces.

 

[Oly J]

I'd use what I needed to stop myself from dying and then build my own personal space station with the rest

 

[tzimize]

Give it away, because what's the point of using it on yourself it you can only enjoy the benefits for such a short time period? If you really don't have lonh left to live, not putting that money into a better cause is just past idiocy and into the realms of stupidity.

If I totally had to spent it on myself though, I would use it to arrange a totally spectacular death. Like trying a flaming car backwards off of a sky scraper and jumping out of the window to sky dive into a gigantic tank of water filled with great white sharks that have explosives in their mouths.

Since I cant make low content posts I guess I'll say something like...fuck you op for making me think about being rich, also...I'd go to space. Fuck traveling the world, I'd travel off-world.

 

[MaxwellEdison]

Give a bit to family members/friends who need money.

Invest the rest into trying to cure whatever ails me. If I fail, at least I've helped everyone else with similar maladies.

 

[krazykidd]

Me, I would use it to travel around the world and try to see everything there is to see but I'd be really pissed because that's impossible in a month, though that would only use a very small quantity of that money, with the rest of the money I would give half of that to my parents and donate the remaining to fund jetpack science, so that way even though I won't get to fly in a jetpack the other people might.

You are a good man.I hope you get the money so i can get a jetpack.

I'd go to Times Square, call up some News organizations, and make sure the world is watching while I burn the money. Then I'll go spend my last month with my loved ones.

You are a terrible person. You know how much of a shock it would be to watch someone burn all that money ? ( I'm half joking)

OT: I don't think people here realise just how much money 1 billion dollars is judging by the responses. 1 Billion = 1 000 000 000 $ . I couldn't even imagine being able to spend 1 billion in a month . Thats like 32 million dollars A DAY you would have to spend.

I would NOT donate ANY of it . I will devide it equally between Me , my immediate family ( Dad, mother, Sister) , my Girlfriend, and my son . So thats 167 million dollars each (including me ). Which leaves me with 5 million dollars to spend per day . I am spending the rest of my month in a hotel on a beach of Barbados , and being very generous with the people offering me services. If by the final day i still have money , i will give then donate it to an indie video game developper that they do with it as they please.