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Re: Death Clock

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Post by bwb »

chrischapman wrote: post #34
bwb wrote: post #3

Love it, i always wanted to buy a watch that did this and not time :)

Excellent idea. If they tied it to a fitness calculator it would show your life extending when you exercise and shrinking when you don't. Spend more time on the couch and watch your life get shorter. Go for a long walk and watch it grow longer. Seems like a pretty good motivator. Don't show me how many steps I've taken. Just show me how much life I have left. I would buy one!

Ya! That would be pretty sweet as well, I figure someone has an app like this for the apple watch maybe?

I'd love one that is e-ink or something super low energy if it is just doing a countdown to death. I love watches that don't tell time.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by falcolas »

umbauk wrote: post #41
rootusrootus wrote: post #36

Getting all the way back to the 70s took a couple minutes of patient tapping on my phone, only to get told I have NAN left. What a let down.

You can just click on the year to scroll back quickly

A shame there’s no affordance to indicate that this is available.

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Post by gshubert17 »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #5

Seems broken? Tells me I have 60-some percent of my life remaining (I was born 1964, when I return to settings it seems stuck on 1992 - for which 60% would make sense).

Seems broken to me too. I put in 1926 for my 96-year-old dad and it says 61% remaining. Which would be great, but I don't expect him to live to 246 (of which 39% lived so far would equal 96).

A calculator which is much easier for me to use and gives more reasonable results is https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/population/longevity.html Its inputs are gender and date of birth. Gender has a big effect on life expectancy. This one shows 2.7 years left and a total estimated lifespan of 98.7 years. By this calculation he has about 3% of his life remaining.

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Post by JKCalhoun »

dahart wrote: post #58
xwdv wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So many people are saving up their happiness for a day when they feel like they can finally be allowed to truly be happy. Sometimes, the day never comes, and the happiness has expired.

About 10 years ago I moved onto a wonderfully quiet street that has only old people. All three of my immediate neighbors (either side plus straight across the street) were couples that had just retired and had been saving for a long time in order to go traveling. Two of the men got too sick to travel and died within a year. The remaining man got sick and almost died, but he’s hanging on. He and his wife both too sick…

Watch a couple of YouTubers that live in the road in their RV. Same story: woman had worked in a hospital and saw an old couple who had just begun living their lives in their "golden years" but the wife ended up dying — the husband was floored at this turn of events in their plans.

he YouTubers hit the road while they still could. Are enjoying themselves in a way many of us (still) only dream about.

Life is short, kids.

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Post by hackingthelema »

cfjedimaster wrote: post #16

I built another version of this about 30ish years ago, you can see it now at www.deathclock.com. I sold the site about 15 years ago (helped pay for an adoption). It was my first "successful" website, getting near 5 million views per day. It was also a useful programming exercise (learned the painful way that one ColdFusion function wouldn't support large numbers and others would, so had to do so wrangling to get the…

I remember that site and it was actually what I was expecting to see when I clicked on the OP! I feel like the version I remember stumbling across had smoking but no BMI but I can't corroborate it on archive.org

It hasn't changed much in 20 years, eh. https://web.archive.org/web/20000520091843/http://www.deathc... Really cool to see it's still up.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by rootusrootus »

thepaulmcbride wrote: post #74
falcolas wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A shame there’s no affordance to indicate that this is available.

Yeah, fair point. I'll try to improve that. Any idea on how you'd want to see it done?

I'd separate the year and month and make the year controls visible.

But all of my UI design work is targeted at internal tools where looking good is way down the list below ease of use, so take my opinion with a grain of salt for anything customer facing.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by JKCalhoun »

bagels wrote: post #39
JKCalhoun wrote: post #5

Seems broken? Tells me I have 60-some percent of my life remaining (I was born 1964, when I return to settings it seems stuck on 1992 - for which 60% would make sense).

You hav to select a specific date, even if you've selected the month and year. It also uses expectancy at birth, not at current age. Pretty useless.

You're absolutely right, I missed entering the day of the month. Year + Month was not enough.

Easy bug to fix? LASt the very least I expect it to pick some arbitrary day of the month I enter.

I should tell my dad though that he is has about 13 weeks left to live. (Or should?)

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