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See also the chart "Life of a Typical American":

* https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

Across the top it has column labels going form 1 to 52 (for the weeks of the year). On the left, it has row labels going from 0 to 90 (for rough life expectancy). These rows and columns are color-coded for different periods of most people's life: Early Years, Elementary/Middle/High School, College, Career, Retirement.

Go down the left-hand crows until you find your current age and you can see how much life you've lived and (roughly) how much you have left.

Some famous deaths (Hendrix, Mozart, JFK, Lincoln, Steve Jobs) listed/marked in article.

You can buy a 24x36" poster (US$20) or high-res PDF ($2) if you want a memento mori:

* https://store.waitbutwhy.com/collections/life-calendars/prod...

* https://gumroad.com/l/life-weeks

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori

Someone created a page where you can enter your birthday and it will fill up the table:

* https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html

* https://github.com/bryanbraun/your-life

Interesting! I tried printing out a blank week chart and highlighting different periods of my own life. It needs work, but it's a great form of visualization.

I remember when I was only 60% as old as I am now that I thought I would do a "method of loci" project about the years of my life mapped to numbered streets in San Francisco, photographing different objects representing different life events on street corners corresponding to the ages that they happened at. Unfortunately I didn't get around to it at the time, and of course now it's harder (to remember earlier parts of my life, and also to find high enough street numbers in the City!).

I have on my back burner to create a visualization like this for myself, backed by an "event database", to which I'd slowly import every bit of archive I can find. Location data, text messages, journals detailing what happen. Goal being, to have simultaneously a nagging countdown to death, and a reflection on various periods of my life.

Between various cloud services and me dilligently copying over data from old computers to new ones, I do have a substantial archive of personal history that goes back to when I was around ~10 years old.

EDIT:

'Brajeshwar has found someone doing roughly what I envisioned! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24866193. I'll have to steal this :).

I made a web version too:

* Weeks to go (Warning: May cause existential angst) https://weeks.louiechristie.com/

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