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Death Clock
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
The early part of life is the best time to spend money on travel and experiences. In the late part of life, one should spend money on the material things that provide passive satisfaction and don’t require too much physical effort. People often get these backwards.
The problem is if you spend all your money when you are young, you won't have any to spend on "material things that provide passive satisfaction" when you are old. Time value of money and compounding gains is a powerful thing. On the other hand, if you are old and wealthy, you may be too frail to do anything. It's a tricky balance, with no guarantees.
People are so afraid of being an old frail man too poor to live that they hoard every dollar they have, not realizing they’ll be dead soon anyway.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mine said 61% and to me it seems like a crazy amount. It’s hard to imagine doing all the living I’ve already done all over again and then some. I think about 10 years ago I felt like I had already gotten plenty enough out of life not to feel short changed. Still love living, don’t get me wrong.
Don't worry. I've got 14% and I can assure you that years go by at an alarming rate. It started for me at 40. 50 was on me pretty quick but 60 was there before I knew it. Now it's all just a blur. Probably best to do stuff now.
Yep. 55 now, and the same. A year can pass and feel like nothing. Especially the last two COVID years. Just feels like a long nap sometimes. I think it's because as we get older, our lives are not changing much. 0-10 years each year brings big changes in our physical growth, intellectual understanding of the world, literally every day brings something new. 10-20 is similar, but the pace starts to slow down. By the time you're 50, one year is pretty much the same as the another. Kids are grown or close to it, you're probably not job-hopping, you're settled in your home. Everything is routine.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mine said 61% and to me it seems like a crazy amount. It’s hard to imagine doing all the living I’ve already done all over again and then some. I think about 10 years ago I felt like I had already gotten plenty enough out of life not to feel short changed. Still love living, don’t get me wrong.
Exactly. I hit 40 a few years back, and I’m statistically likely to live at least that long again. A lot happened in 40 years, and I was not in control of my life for just shy of half of that. The next 40 is going to be interesting.
The next 40 will feel like about 10 years, maybe less, from the perception of your 20 year old self.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's with that huge drop in life expectancy between 1910-1920?
I wonder if there will be a similar dip in 2020-21.
Not visibly, no. Several reasons, where the most obvious is that our medical care and availability of information has massively improved. Another is that the 1918 pandemic hit young and healthy people disproportionately.
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#116As an aside, I really dislike the style of date picker they are using. I always find them so cumbersome. If you are designing a website/web app please use a html input type=date, at least on more modern devices and provide a fallback for older ones. The UX for date selection in modern browsers is very well thought through. Apologies for being off topic. EDIT: This shouldn’t be the top comment, you should probably sto…
I almost gave up using it due to the year picker. If I can see the year I should be able to click it, but on this one you actually have to scroll down until it is no longer faded at all.
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#117I don't think you are obligated to live your life or even enjoy it. It is a very nice bonus if you enjoy your life and feel that you are living your life.
There isn't a duty to make the most of whatever period you are in. You don't have to die without regrets as you get to choose how you live for a large part.
If you die with regrets it means that there was a glimmer of vibrancy, maybe a sense of dreaming as you die albeit negative.
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#118Hmmm
YOU HAVE
NAN%
OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN
REMAINING
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#119Hmmm YOU HAVE NAN% OF YOUR EXPECTED LIFESPAN REMAINING
Same. Not sure if should get my finances in order or am an Eternal.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is if you spend all your money when you are young, you won't have any to spend on "material things that provide passive satisfaction" when you are old. Time value of money and compounding gains is a powerful thing. On the other hand, if you are old and wealthy, you may be too frail to do anything. It's a tricky balance, with no guarantees.
People are so afraid of being an old frail man too poor to live that they hoard every dollar they have, not realizing they’ll be dead soon anyway.
Yes, and the last part is why I'm more interested in passing an inheritance to my kids than I am with doing anything with the money myself. The money my parents left me largely paid for my kids' college education. I haven't really spent it on anything else; I have everything I really need, and feel like "paying forward" is the best thing I can do with it.