The Death Clock app predicts the date of your death

New app called Death Clock predicts the date of death of its users and offers tips about how you can move that date back.

TechCrunch wrote about the Death Clock app for the iPod back in 2006 — but developer Brett Franson he told Bloomberg that with artificial intelligence trained in over 1,200 life expectancy studies, its app offers a “pretty significant” improvement over standard life boards.

Naturally, I needed to try it myself. The questionnaire began with basic information equivalent to age, gender and ethnicity, but in addition included more detailed questions on family history, mental health and chronic diseases. Finally, he predicted that I’d die on February 28, 2074, having lived to the ripe old age of 90… but with higher habits, perhaps I’d live to be 103.

For an annual subscription fee of $40, Death Clock will each suggest ways to enhance my habits and show a countdown clock to my predicted death.

This death date is meant to be shared online, however it also has practical implications. As financial planner Ryan Zabrowski told Bloomberg, “A huge concern for older people, our retirees, is that they will outlive their money,” so accurate mortality estimates might be helpful.