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"I used to go to the gym and pretend in my head I had already died, and it was 100 years into the future, and I was dreaming of some guy who wrote a database. I didn't know how the story ended yet, I hadn't gotten that far."

-- Damien Katz, http://damienkatz.net/2014/10/tank_man.html

With the major caveat, of course, that you can't read your obituary when it's 'realised'.

Unless you fake your own death! :)

Wouldn't you basically be realizing it every year, hopefully getting closer and closer to your goals. In fact, on any particular day you would know "if I die today, i know what my obituary would be".

exception: the obituary for the man who created a time travel device.

:) interesting idea.

I'm also reminded of the Amazon "write the press release first" approach to product development.

http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2006/11/working_backward...

Press Release Driven Development is a thing.