The maker & the responsibility · Updated October 8, 2026
A clock for deciding,
not predicting.
The date is an estimate. The person you keep meaning to see is real. This tool exists to make that distinction useful.
Who makes this?
I’m Conan, the maker of Your Death Clock and founder of Kingsway. My background is user experience design. I make the product and content decisions for this independent project.
That is design experience, not an actuarial or medical qualification. This tool has not been clinically validated and has no claimed endorsement from the Social Security Administration or a health institution. Its sources describe populations, not your individual future.
What I am trying to make
A fast answer with the assumptions beside it, not a certainty hidden behind a long questionnaire. After the countdown, familiar weekends, birthdays and possible visits offer a more practical perspective. The separate life-in-weeks calendar lets you choose a horizon and keep a printable reminder without treating that horizon as a forecast.
You do not need an account. Calculator inputs stay in browser memory. We measure usage, but do not send your birthday, health answers, estimated date or remaining time to analytics. The privacy page explains the boundary.
How to inspect the work
The U.S. baseline uses the SSA 2023 period life table. You can inspect the age table and downloadable CSV, then follow the worked example. UK results use the ONS 2022–2024 population table for ages 18–100. Only these official-table estimates are offered. Unsupported-country constants, habit offsets and fabricated age bands have been removed. This remains a population lookup, not a validated personal risk model.
Internal software checks cover every supported U.S. age/sex lookup, invalid dates, missing data and calendar boundaries. Those checks test whether the software follows its stated rules; they do not prove that an individual death date is accurate.
Feedback and corrections
You can email Conan at hello@yourdeathclock.com with a usability issue, source discrepancy or confusing statement. For a calculation issue, describe the step and use a hypothetical example instead of your actual birthday or result. The contact page explains what to include.
Corrections should identify the affected source or rule, explain what changed and update the relevant page. A recent date alone is not evidence that the underlying data is new. We review the baseline when SSA or ONS publishes a new life-table release.