Show HN: You will die in X weeks

There’s not much of a point to life, so you might as well choose to be happy and chase after pleasurable stimuli. The silver lining to toiling at a career is that it gives you the funding to chase greater and greater stimuli and with less effort. As long as you keep your body healthy the climax of your life will be that much greater. If your career is not doing that for you come up with a new strategy or get a new career, but never change the goal.

I believe they are implying that 'procrastinating' is the same thing as 'toiling one's life' away

Fair point.

(Basically, if you have the financial means, live the best life you can. Don't toil it away on non-meaningful stuff.)

50 weeks seems too low. Even if you're going all-in "do nothing but this" I have hard time believing you can go from "no idea" to mastery in less than a year in most subjects.

You can always tell those links, they start with "http".

OTOH, I picked 1930-01-01 and it says 48 weeks left. Be glad you're not from 1930.

Seriously, talk about existential crisis :(

can confirm - have both - feel like crap

Surprising how little 7 years sound in weeks.

Yeah, that part kinda frustrated me. The boxes highlight, e.g., that Simone Biles and Michael Phelps has world records in their teens... so what exactly is the takeaway? I'm happy for them, I'm not sad about myself for it -- it's just random trivia.

Unclear message.

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.

You're beating most of us. I've done nothing but write code and accumulate debt..

Fwiw it’s simulateneously comparing you with the biggest .0001% outliers in recent human history.

A random article from 5 years ago doesn't own this concept.

You don’t need to credit anyone. It isn’t a school paper. And no death clocks are an older idea than this webpage.

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.

you seem to be assuming it's such an utterly genius idea that they had to have stolen it as opposed to just coming up with it by themselves

I like that idea, though I'd probably word it differently. Personally, I do spend 2 hours a day 5 days a week commuting. However, I don't commute by 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.

The classic example is that you will spend over a full month of working hours putting on socks. Some assumptions: living 91 years, taking 30s a day to deal with socks, and work days being around 8hrs.

It gives me mostly anxiety

My death is sure to be such a bore. I intend to skip it and be elsewhere.

Just try it. It’s something you do not expect :)

Does this give everyone a 91 year expected life span? If so, it could be more accurate if it took your current age into account. Older people who have already dodged a lot of chances to die are expected to live to an older age, on average. Younger people are expected to die at a younger age, on average.

Hello - it's not an auto-increment, that's the number of weeks calculated from your birthday til today. You can try it with 3000 to see what it looks like.

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