I Will Die At 83
Whilst cruising on Deb’s blog, I found a post that listed a couple of links to online quizzes at OkCupid. The others were quite boring, but the Death Online Test was rather interesting. On the introduction page, the Death test is apparently the product of research that began 5 years ago, in Harvard’s Math department.
The following is my result:
DEAD AT 83
cancer
The test result also listed the many possibilities of the cause of my death, in which they are:
56% cancer
24% car accident
13% loneliness
5% drowning of lungs (eh?)
2% wounds
Apparently, I have 20861.9 days left on this earth, as I have lived 31% of my life.
The question is; does the idea of dying scare me? A little, to be perfectly honest. Can’t imagine what it will feel like to be old and grey. I want to be forever young. Or much preferably, to die young.
The test sort of reminds me to live my life to the fullest and have more fun - that’s the purpose of life that I’ve chosen as an answer for the last question.
May 16th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Death is inevitable, that is for sure. When, where and at what age is and will be a mystery to everyone. I don’t even think about it. I just get on with making the most of my short existence on this earth
May 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
Yup. It’ll depress the hell out of me if I start thinking and reading too much into it!
Now where’s that Vienetta ice-cream that I’ve bought yesterday … I knew I got it somewhere …
May 16th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
it’s a silly test! (i say this because i took the test and it tells me i will die at 29. can you believe it? that young?)
but yes, life is short, i will share with you my friend Deje’s motto he calls Dejeism
“Have fun on your way to heaven!” –> I try to do just that.
May 16th, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Follow my favorite mantra : life is too short, go nuts once in a while.
May 16th, 2008 at 8:26 pm
Why on Earth would anyone want to take this ‘test’?
This way madness lies.
(BTW. Sorry Rima, but Indcoup and myself had you pegged at mid-thirties. That’s thanks to your writing rather than those photos you’ve posted.)
May 17th, 2008 at 1:09 am
jakartass: you and indcoup weren’t far off. I am in my early thirties. that’s why the test is so silly.
ah, so my pictures dont look my age? good to know, as long as they dont make me look like im in my 40s. lol
May 17th, 2008 at 3:48 am
@Rimafauzi:
Your’s is 29??? Damn. It is a silly test indeed - tho I can’t imagine what you’ve put in to receive such result! You sure you didn’t exaggerate? After all, it was created by the Harvard Math department
@Jakartass:
Curiosity - as much as anything else. The rest of the tests weren’t that appealing to me. And yet it was nice to be reminded that I’d actually die someday - right now I feel immortal. Muahahah.
May 17th, 2008 at 3:50 am
@Toni:
I’ve always wanted to try that mind-setting thing where you imagine that you’ve only 6 months to live thus you’ll try to make the best of it as possible but I can’t do it!
Probably it’s because I haven’t tried to go really, really ballistically nuts as you’ve advised.
May 17th, 2008 at 2:14 pm
sowwy.. it was a typo.. not 29.. but 49
:p
May 17th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
The test said that I would die at 84 because of heart attack. Ha! I’d say that it’s probably true. I have bigger risk for heart attack than cancer LOL
May 18th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
86…cancer!
May 21st, 2008 at 8:53 pm
perhaps this test is the greatest reason why prudential put me on their highest risk client..
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 am
i don’t need this test. i will die when i’m totally useless n can’t even enjoy my self any more.
sigh. this is depressing. let’s talk about life, not death. That steve job has a point. no one wants to die, even people who wants to go to heaven, don’t wana die to get there. hehe.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
@Rob:
I hear that brother. Lucky you got three more years than me tho! lol
@Ingki:
You just remind me of my junior high school friend whom I was never close with, and suddenly called me out of nowhere, after almost 15 years, and so eager to meet to. She kept bugging and calling and asking about my business and everything.
She fessed up eventually that she worked at Prudential. I had to tell her to sod off.
@M:
Perhaps heaven and hell is all in our minds and we create them ourselves? Hmmm ….
I agree - too depressing to think about, let’s just eat ice cream! Yay.
May 24th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
This is what you brought about! With this damned site. O, my God! Only two years, three months and two days to go.
I have to hurry.
No more time for wasting my time.
I’ll have to restrict sleep to three hours a day- maximum. Have to stop driving a car because I can not afford the loss of time in traffic jams. Quitting from any time consuming voluntary job. And I don’t wanna spent any more time on social visits to people I rather miss. Stop searching in blogosphere will earn me hours a day. I will budget - that is severely limit - time spend on inconsequential chats with family members, relatives and friends.
This is what I’ll do.
My last two years I’m going to do what i always wanted to do: sitting in the sun or shadow, sipping wine, reading a book and listening to good music.
May 28th, 2008 at 10:59 am
@Colson:
Sounds like a nice plan to spend the rest of your life
June 2nd, 2008 at 10:05 am
13% of loneliness??? How the hell does that happen???
June 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 am
lol no idea. I remember there were some questions asking what my social life was so the quiz must have considered that aspect as a part of my causes of death.
June 2nd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
You need to get out more!!!!!!!!
September 17th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Thanks for the link. Sounds like interesting read
October 27th, 2008 at 5:19 am
God is not a limited individual who sits alone up in the clouds on a golden throne. God is pure Consciousness that dwells within everything. Understanding this truth, learn to accept and love everyone equally.