A retired Canadian couple who won $11.3 million in the lottery in July have already given it (almost) all away.

"What you've never had, you never miss," 78-year-old Violet Large explained to a local reporter.

She was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for cancer when the couple realized they'd won the jackpot in July.

"That money that we won was nothing," her tearful husband, Allen, told Patricia Brooks Arenburg of the Nova Scotia Chronicle Herald. "We have each other."

[Rewind: Lottery winner hits jackpot, four times]

The money was a "headache," they told the paper--mainly, it brought anxiety over the prospect that "crooked people" might take advantage of them. Several people called them out of the blue to ask for money when the news first broke that they'd won the jackpot. So they began an $11 million donation spree to get rid of it and help others, the Chronicle Herald reports:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20101104/od_yblog_upshot/nicest-canadian-couple-in-world-doles-out-lottery-winnings

If you were in their shoes, what will you do?

Wow. If i were to be in there shoes, i would invest half&give the other out as gift to the needy

Actually, if I were in their shoes at that age of 78, I would have done exactly what they have done - giving the money away and keeping a little of it.

But right now, I can achieve quite a lot with the money (abt N1.6 Billion) and would definitely give some to my family members and close pals.