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Tikker – The wrist watch that counts down your life
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#33Is this a joke? This sounds like the perfect way to induce anxiety and hopelessness, ultimately resulting in depression. This is a terrible idea.
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#34At 1st look this is depressing, but strangely enough they've already raised 16k out of the required 25k, AND there's still 24 days left to go until the end of the campaign.
Perhaps the backers are looking at it in a different way: time left to treasure.
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#35I'm pretty sure Karl Pilkington first thought of this idea.
YES yes and yes!
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#36As eastern philosophers say: The only time that matters is Now. Now is the only time you can ever use.
I agree with other comments this is a terrible idea.
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#37The time you have remaining is not a fixed number. It is increasing at about one year every decade at the moment, and that rate of increase might leap dramatically in the near future. You can either be a freeloader, roll the dice and see where the work of other people on medtech takes you, or you can help to increase the amount of time you have left. Participate in initiatives like http://healthextension.co/ , or don…
For a middle class person, they are probably better off saving their money rather than funding life extension research. Having money enough to get good health care in their old age will extend their life more than adding a few dollars to research they would barely speed up thanks to the small amount. Heck, the money might even be needed to buy application of the results of the research. If you are rich, OK, fire away at funding life extension research.
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#38Is this a joke? This sounds like the perfect way to induce anxiety and hopelessness, ultimately resulting in depression. This is a terrible idea.
depends on the person, I guess. Some people might think "not much time, so let me not waste it" and some might get stressed/depressed thinking about it, and waste even more time than before.