Death clock

Generally we are extremely curious about our future. We resort to fortune-tellers, chiromancy or Tarot. But what agitates us most is to know the date of our death. The death clock can help you find it out.

People always hope for the better and think: “ill-fated things can happen to anybody but me”. However extreme entertainments are always in high demand and that’s why they keep creating them. Death clock is one of the signs of our epoch when people get bored very fast and they need something to thrill them and heat their imagination.

Death clock may be represented as a screensaver or a program uploaded on a site. One of the variants is placed here www.deathclock.com. To determine how long your life will be your should fill in some fields answering the questions, for example:

• Date of birth (day, month, year);
• Sex;
• Style of life;
• Height and weight;
• Smoking status;
• What principle should be used while setting the clock: Normal, Optimistic, Pessimistic or Sadistic.

Fans of grim humour have the chance to estimate the death clock at its true worth after clicking the button. Since that time the clock begins to count off the seconds of your life, which is supposed to bring you near your death. In another variant the death clock just predicts the date of your end. It is the entertainment not for the nervous.

The World Health Organization used an alternative model of the death clock. At the conference devoted to the discussion of the Tobacco Treaty they placed the ‘death clock’ at the hall entry. This clock counted the number of people died from tobacco caused diseases. After the conference the counter showed 13.4 million people: this number of death was registered for four years. The death clock appealed to reason of participants and all the people on the whole.

But if we take a closer look at this phenomenon we’ll see that it makes sense. Such inventions as death clock help people glance back at their life and analyze whether they do everything in the right way. The death clock takes into account the factors that influence life span and estimates how much your health is undermined (if at all). That’s the whole point! It gives you the chance to revise your mode of life and give up bad habits. It turns out that even such a horrifying device can be useful if you know how to handle it.

They say there are three constituents of longevity recipe:

• To lead an active life including physical and intellectual labour. It’s proved that well-educated people rarely fall sick and live longer.
• It’s necessary to be ascetic within reasonable limits, of course. The fact is that comfort and a satisfied life “demobilize” the organism;
• All long-livers are optimists. Moreover, they are friendly and unselfish.

No doubt these pieces of advice are hard to put into practice but it’s worth it. We live only once and it would be a pity to regret something at the end of life.