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How many days do we have left?


Flickr image Blue-domed church at sunset by Marcelgermain

Flickr image "Blue-domed church at sunset" by Marcelgermain

This article may be a bit depressing for those who are not mature enough to confront the inevitable facing us: that we are dying everyday.

What I mean is that from the day that we are born, we have a life expectancy till the day we die. We won’t know if we will die young or die old but we know our time will come some day.

I read this article referenced from Box of Crayons, “What’s your death clock read” where the author came up with a countdown widget to remind himself of the number of days he has left before his life expectancy is up. I’ve decided to compute my own based on Singapore’s statistics of average life expectancy for men at 78.4 years.

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