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A Modern app calledDeath Clockpredicts the date of its users ’ deaths and extend peak on how to tug that date back .
TechCrunchwrote about an iPod Death Clock appway back in 2006 — but developer Brent Fransontold Bloombergthat with an AI trained on more than 1,200 lifetime expectancy study , his app offers a “ fairly important ” melioration on standardlife tabular array .
of course , I had to try it myself . The questionnaire started with basics like age and gender , but also included more elaborate questions about family chronicle , genial health , and inveterate conditions . last , it promise that I ’ll buy the farm on February 28 , 2074 , at the ripe old eld of 90 … but with better habits , I might live to 103 .
For an one-year subscription fee of $ 40 , Death Clock will both suggest ways to meliorate my habits and show a clock counting down to my forecast death .
That death date is designed to be apportion online , but it also has practical implications . As fiscal deviser Ryan Zabrowski separate Bloomberg , “ A huge care for elderly people , our retiree , is outliving their money , ” so accurate mortality estimates could help .
