You're going to die. Oh wait, just kidding

What would you do if doctors said you only had one year to live? Take a trip? Write a book? Spend your life savings on the best that money could buy?

Then what if, two years later, it turned out that the doctors were wrong?

That's what happened to John Brandrick, a 62-year-old British man who started spending like crazy after doctors told him he was going to die within a year from pancreatic cancer. After quitting his job, Brandrick sold and gave away all his stuff, stopped paying his mortgage, and spent all the money on great food and an amazing vacation.

Now he's going to live -- which is great and all -- but he's totally broke. Subsequently, now that his"tumor" is just an inflamed pancreas, Brandrick figured doctors owed him some of that money back.

The hospital, as you might suspect, says they made their best diagnosis, and aren't responsible for their patent's spending habits.

It's a tired cliche that you should be "living each day as if it were your last," but -- as Mr. Brandrick's situation demonstrates -- that's not exactly practical (though I bet he had a great year).