The latest Euromillions lottery has just paid out £90 million, approx $150 million, to two sets of winners, one a syndicate of 8 people and a married couple.
But can winning too much money affect your life so adversely, that you would wish you had never won at all. There are plenty of stories of people winning millions and then spending it all leaving them destitute. There are also plenty of people who are millionaires, but the difference is that they have either worked for it or grown up in a culture where that kind of money is a known quantity.
Is £45 million too much to be won in one go, especially if the person is not used to knowing what to do with that amount of money?
Does the old adage of not buying happiness but buying a better kind of misery hold true?
And what would you do if you won so much money?