I find "weeks of life" the most familiar repeating pattern.<p>Take a moment to realize there are "only" about 1000 weeks in 20 years.<p>Now think about your weekly patterns and start counting down.<p>Bonus depression for the morning, your chance of cancer doubles every decade.
Watching the video I realised I am wasting valuable time watching the video...
- Also I would have preferred a grant total of seconds remaining rather than years / months / days / hours etc.
Does a deadline produce better work and happier employees?<p>I doubt that this kind of think will have a motivating a effect. Reminding you of the estimated point in time when your body degraded so much that you will die does not sound great.<p>It's also purely egoistic. How about making some else's life better by doing things you don't like?
The time you have remaining is not a fixed number. It is increasing at about one year every decade at the moment, and that rate of increase might leap dramatically in the near future.<p>You can either be a freeloader, roll the dice and see where the work of other people on medtech takes you, or you can help to increase the amount of time you have left. Participate in initiatives like <a href="http://healthextension.co/" rel="nofollow">http://healthextension.co/</a>, or donate to the SENS Research Foundation.<p>It is interesting to see that in a community ostensibly focused on creating change the first response to length of life line items is usually that length of life and trajectory of life is fixed and immutable.
I don't need an Expiration Date clock counting down the seconds to remind me to Live Life.<p>When I want to feel depressed, er, motivated I just figure out how many weekends I have left until I'm 78.<p>From all the complaining I hear from people past a certain age there's quality of life issues well before that magic number though.
Built a toy javascript utility along similar lines about a year ago. Breaks down your expected life remaining into blocks by month: <a href="http://novorobo.com/projects/hitpoints/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://novorobo.com/projects/hitpoints/index.html</a>.
I made a little (free) Android App a couple of years ago that does something similar: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.deathclock&hl=en" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.amimetic.de...</a>
At 1st look this is depressing, but strangely enough they've already raised 16k out of the required 25k, AND there's still 24 days left to go until the end of the campaign.<p>Perhaps the backers are looking at it in a different way: time left to treasure.
Reminds me of this:
<a href="http://barefootfts.com/blog/memento-mori" rel="nofollow">http://barefootfts.com/blog/memento-mori</a>
which is a bit more visual.
Actually, I'd love a generalized countdown clock. Not necessarily for my lifespan, but set it up for goals like, "My side project will be profitable in 2 months."
As eastern philosophers say: The only time that matters is Now. Now is the only time you can ever use.<p>I agree with other comments this is a terrible idea.