Maan, can you please give me the exact date so i can make arrangements?? Also, does this take into account leap years? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON8cTi5NSMc
My death is sure to be such a bore. I intend to skip it and be elsewhere.
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#32I like it! I think it should also add in "If you commute 2 hours/day, 5 days per week, you'll spend X weeks sitting in a car."
Somehow that's more depressing than the 1500 weeks spent sleeping. At least sleeping is (for the most part) a restorative/enjoyable part of life. Commuting to work is hell.
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#33Trigger warning for anyone with depression or anxiety - this will more than likely make you feel like crap.
You can always tell those links, they start with "http".
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#34Some sort of death clock?
Some years ago there was a similar "death clock" site which everyone at the office was sharing. When I opened it, it predicted I had more or less a month to live.
Yes, yes, for a minute I didn't get the joke. I'm dumb :P
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#35It was cool but by the time I got to the part of people’s accomplishments I felt utterly worthless and left. God damn, I haven’t accomplished much of anything in my life except writing code and accumulating money to spend on making more money.
If you can take your mind off the comparison bit (I think it’s unfortunate they put that there) and look at what’s made you happy so far, then the result might be quite interesting.
I’ve been doing a different version of this sort of activity for a while to help with depression. E.g The first time I travelled alone or moved country might not impress anyone else, but they’re certainly pivotal moments in my own development.
I think we’ll all have our own examples, and we can quite often be dismissive of them.
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#36Curious why this seems to make a record in a database with an autoincrement ID for each sumbission(https://www.failflow.com/die/1102). Try putting a number <1500 at the end of the URL to see some strangers' answers.
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#37The section at the end displaying famous figures and their milestones seems a little bit counterintuitive, at least from a certain perspective. If the goal is to get visitors to stop procrastinating, it's pretty disheartening to display that information and make the visitor realize they've likely done nothing in their life by comparison.
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#38This is not an original idea: https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html But I don't see credits anywhere.
The other responses to this comment seem oddly defensive to me.
I was thinking the same thing - in particular, the format and the connection to famous milestones are similar in a way that's uncanny.
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#39Trigger warning for anyone with depression or anxiety - this will more than likely make you feel like crap.
Seriously, talk about existential crisis :(
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#40> There's nothing quite like contemplating the finiteness of life to help you to stop procrastinating. I had the total opposite thought. Seeing this makes me realize how stupid it is to toil one's life away for a career
Fair point.
(Basically, if you have the financial means, live the best life you can. Don't toil it away on non-meaningful stuff.)