December 21, 2007

Life Expectancy Calculator

If you have some time to kill and want to see how long you have left on this earth, here's a good quick way to find out.

You answer about 20 questions based on your demographics, lifestyle, and family medical history, and it spits out your virtual age and expected of death. It's well designed, and neat to see how the answers impact your health.

It's also flattering to find out I'm a virtual teenager, health-wise (and probably in terms of maturity, too). Even if this news is coming from a website I've never seen before, good news is good news.

It looks like I'm not going anywhere for the next 19,800 days.

This makes me think I should really start saving more for retirement :-)

Dec 21, 2007 12:43:04 PM | Found on the web, Games

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