When Are You Going to Die? There's a Couple of Apps for That Daniel Lefferts - PolicyMic
go to original December 27, 2013

The "death clock" is a clock so intricate that people would die during the making. (History Channel)

If you want to know exactly how many hours, days, and minutes you have left on this beautiful green earth, there's an app for that.

In fact, there's more than one. Days of Life, which was reviewed by Mark O'Connell on the New Yorker's Page-Turner blog this month, calculates your lifespan based on your age, gender, and nationality. Another app, Death Clock, makes a prediction based on a 15-question survey about your dietary habits and lifestyle. Both are available through the iTunes store and cost just 99 cents each.

... Of course, neither Days of Life nor Death Clock is pretending to be a scientifically accurate predictor of death (though I do imagine their algorithms draw on real, statistical data). Instead, the purpose of the apps, as O'Connell writes, "is to make you consider your own mortality and to want, as a result, to spend your remaining time as wisely as possible."

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