I would normally give a ‘like’ to a comment that touches me in a good or informative way but your story is so sad, massive respect for sharing.
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I would swap all those pills for one called continual good health….
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I would go for the dollars and then instantly exchange it 
And next would like more time with my dad 
We can never know what other people are going through and how life experience shapes our views …my heart goes out to you…
I live with the possibility of losing my eldest daughter to a rare form of cancer but so far she is beating the odds and every 3 monthly negative is a positive for us
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I’m sorry for your loss. I can’t begin to imagine what you’ve been through.
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Would be my choice too.
1 - what on earth for?
2 - only if you don’t opt for time travel (which would make making a fortune trivial).
3 - always ends badly
4 - interesting.
5 - see 4 pop forward to a future where they have cured old age
6 - interesting
7 - could be interesting, I suppose - but if you have infinite money courtesy of 4, you could probably spend the time to acquire most skills.
8 - see 1, whatever for?
9 - meeting them is not sufficient on its own (as Dudley Moore discovered in Bedazzled).
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- can be dealt with by 4, as well, as @Ancient_Mariner says.
I’m sorry to hear of your loss, I think that you are right to avoid the “what if” scenarios or you will tear yourself apart even more than the loss of a child (which I can barely begin to imagine).
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Wisdom.
I’d take the money - there’s a lot of good you could do with that sort of sum, though I’d probably keep a tenth of it - and the 3 skills, since my learning guitar, piano and French could all do with a boost.
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Take the time travel, pop back to the middle of last week and tell yourself the numbers for whichever lottery you wish to win, way more than $1,000,000 available.
Of course, time travel on its own is pretty useless unless you can compensate for the Earth’s spin, movement along it’s orbital path, movement of the Sun it its orbital path and movement of the Milky Way galaxy itself. All of which means that if you “pop back to the middle of last week” without also shifting in space to make up for that lot you’ll quickly die a lonely death in the vacuum of space.
I’m a Londoner, so I’d love to use time travel to go back to the 30s and climb up the stairs on one of those wonderful-looking London buses! And spend a day in London, stroll up Regent Street, and hail one of those taxis! And a train – yes please! Hyde Park, speaker’s corner, the serpentine…
Everything looks so relaxed and unhurried. I’d spend a day in London then. Today? Not on your life!
If I used a pill to time travel to the future, would I find that brain tissue, cultivated in petri dishes, has replaced artificial intelligence?
The mind boggles!
Or, “self aware drunken AI”
Some things I’ve been reading this morning make me think we’re already there
Not on SF I hope…
UK news!
As a boy I remember so well that poor old dad was a martyr to constipation.
In those day we ate ordinary plain food full of roughage – we ate greens - but that obviously wasn’t enough.
So, I’d use my time travel pill to go back to tell dad to get more exercise and drink more water – and throw away those little boxes of ex-lax, and thus be a lot happier.
