[scott113341]

I've been kicking around a related idea for a while. A static "death day" is great because you can internalize, and countdown towards it, but it loses the distribution behind life expectancy. A single day is probability's expected value, but there's a huge range of days that could be your last - even today!

My idea is a daily (or weekly/monthly/etc) notification that re-computes a "death day" for you, on that recurring basis. Each notification would include a day, and together, they'd form a distribution that faithfully represents the variance in days you're likely to die.

For example: me; 28-year-old male. I'd regularly get "death days" that are ~50 years out. Occasionally, maybe they'd be 25, or 55 years away. And very rarely, they'd be things like 10, or even 5 years away. A perfect reminder to play hooky, or call up a friend, or tick off a bucket list item every once in a while!

Anyone interested in this? I'm kind of fishing for an excuse to build it...

[mapcars]

There is a spiritual practice to go to bed everyday like on a death bed, visualising completely and clearly that I will not wake up tomorrow morning, this is it, this is the end. It does change life profoundly, no computation needed :)

[smallnamespace]

Something like this?

https://repl.it/repls/CyberFluidRoute#main.py

[stevekemp]

I went swimming in the sea yesterday evening, it crossed my mind that there was a non-zero chance I might die ..

If I wrote online "Gonna go swimming in the freezing sea, in the dark" I can imagine my death-day estimate could easy move by many many years!

[raunakdag]

May be misinterpreting it, but sounds a little like futureme.org but automated?

[sbelskie]

Interested.