[machinerychorus]

Memento Mori is a surprisingly popular topic on HN. This Wikipedia page or some other blog post on the topic gets posted here fairly often. It's kinda interesting because when I bring this up with people I know they usually say it's depressing and strange.

I like this idea so much I made an app that makes my wallpaper show what percentage of my life is already gone by, but only one person (a good friend) that I've shown it to IRL has actually liked it.

App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.machineryc...

Source code: https://github.com/ethanmdavidson/DeathProgress

[smeej]

Part of me was expecting one-star reviews from people with really dark senses of humor about how their loved one had the app installed and died when it was only 31.244% full.

[mysterypie]

> what percentage of my life is already gone by

It's even worse when you consider your perception[1] of how much of your life has gone by. At age 20, you perceive that 50% of your life has gone by. That is, you feel like time passes equally slowly (or equally fast) between 0-20 as between 20-75. At age 40, you perceive that 75% of your life has been lived.

[1] I don't recall the source, but it was a psychology or neurology article. I don't claim that the study is flawless, but it does feel to me like there is merit to the argument that a decade in your youth seems like a long time but a decade as an adult passes quickly.

[fknorangesite]

> It's kinda interesting because when I bring this up with people I know they usually say it's depressing and strange.

Is it the topic they find strange, or the timing and social situation in which you (keep?) bringing it up?