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Inspired by Kevin Kelly's "My Life Countdown" - in Python
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the_day_i_will_die.py
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# Inspired by: http://kk.org/ct2/2007/09/my-life-countdown-1.php
# Life expectancy data:
# http://www.health.state.ny.us/health_care/medicaid/publications/docs/adm/06adm-5att8.pdf
 
$ python
>>> from datetime import date, timedelta
 
>>> birth_year = 1976
>>> birth_date = date(1976,3,2)
>>> life_expectancy = 76.09
 
>>> life_years = int(round(life_expectancy)) # 76
>>> death_year = birth_year + life_years # 2052
>>> birth_date_day_of_year = birth_date.timetuple()[7] # 62
>>> percent_of_last_year = life_expectancy % 1 #.09
                     
>>> days_to_live_in_last_year = timedelta(days=birth_date_day_of_year+percent_of_last_year*365)
 
# Start from dec 31 to avoid off-by-one error
>>> the_day_i_will_die = date(death_year-1,12,31) + days_to_live_in_last_year
     
>>> the_day_i_will_die.ctime()
'Thu Apr 3 00:00:00 2052'
 
>>> days_until_i_die = (the_day_i_will_die - date.today()).days # 15616
>>> days_lived = (date.today() - birth_date).days # 12175
 
>>> total_days_i_will_live = (the_day_i_will_die - birth_date).days # 27791
 
>>> mid_life_crisis = birth_date + timedelta(days=total_days_i_will_live/2)
 
>>> mid_life_crisis.ctime()
'Wed Mar 19 00:00:00 2014'