Someone Invent This - The Death Clock

For me this would serve as a very positive reminder. Since both my parents (independently of each other) passed away at 55 years of age, I can't shake away the feeling that 55 years is my life expectancy as well.

I know in my head that it is completely irrational, but over and over I find myself thinking of 55 years as a proper estimate. The other day when a friend complained that the average age of her colleagues must be like 60, in my head I thought "Wait, how does that work? Oh, that's right, most people actually get to live beyond 55 years of age".

A daily reminder that my true statistical life expectancy actually goes quite far beyond 55 years would be something that gave me a slightly more positive outlook every day. Right now I'm 35, if anyone wants to put it into perspective.

This was already invented 13 years ago: http://www.deathclock.com/

It's the first hit on google for death clock.

Find some life expectancy stats and build the clock with an Arduino board.

http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=sp_dyn_le...

One aspect to make sure to take into account is that it has to count down at less than real-time speed, since conditional-with-age life expectancy increases as you age (e.g. if your life expectancy at age 60 is 12 years, your life expectancy at age 71 is not 1 year).

Already Invented for those who plan to die in the next 27 years or so: http://www.brgprecision.com/products/timers/simpletimer.php

Trivial with an Arduino. He could even build it himself in a weekend.

Professor Farnsworth has invented this at least twice. It's occasionally off by a few seconds, though, what with "free will" and all.

This is all very well but if I unexpectedly get knocked down dead by a bus I will want my money back.

Have you seen http://lifepath.me?

knowing me, if I didn't think today may be my last day on earth, I might just end up procrastinating :-P So, death clock based on life expectancy would probably have a negative effect on others like myself :)