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Re: Death Clock

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Post by mherdeg »

ngngngng wrote: post #49
_ttg wrote: post #30

I can't put my finger on it but I always find this modern(Americanized?) peddling of stoicism too pretentious and vapid as to be not only useless but actively off-putting to me. The fact that life is short is already central to most adults and I don't see what purpose any of these reminders serve except to seem high-minded (and annoying). The faux precision of this "clock" also bothers me but that's a different story…

I’ve found some use for it. For example, I’m a significantly better parent when I take time in the morning to remind myself that I might die today. Similarly useful is reminding yourself that your family members might die today.

I don't know if the calculator at seeyourfolks.com has guided any of my decisions differently but it guides some thinking.

Re: Death Clock

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Post by jdmoreira »

peterpost2 wrote: post #140
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…

This is amazing. This is going to sound stupid but your website is one of my first memories I have of the internet. I was shown it by a school friend (we were about ~8 years old) and I remember being scared about the result, none of could read English well so pretty sure we filled out nonsense for the weight input :)

I have the almost exact same story as parent. Was around 10 years myself and remember using your website and being really scared of what the outcome would be

Re: Death Clock

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Post by joering2 »

this is so silly obviously... we need similar website when you assume it really know so it asks you 50 questions including whether you smoke, etc, etc and at the end it shows you this: "nobody knows when you die, but assume you may be dead tomorrow morning. So do you: [checklist] - have a last will? - made sure you told your family how much you love them? - made sure your life insurance is up to date? - made sure you give banking credentials to your spouse or parent so that they don't have to wait months before government and courts do their job. etc etc"

That would be somewhat more useful....

Re: Death Clock

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Post by mbg721 »

everybodyknows wrote: post #129
mbg721 wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the tables that actuaries use are publicly available and account for that. The thing to watch for would be that you're not using something with a lot of built-in conservatism meant for life insurance statutory compliance.

> life insurance statutory compliance. Interesting -- can you elaborate on whatever unrealities are forced upon life insurers by government?

It's not unrealities, it's just that you want some cushion before your life insurer goes bankrupt. That's why statutory and GAAP are different accounting standards.

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Post by mysterydip »

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 thought I remembered seeing this before. Ah, ColdFusion, those were the days. What version?

Re: Death Clock

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Post by baxtr »

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…

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