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Just in time for Halloween: a wristwatch that delivers the gift of death.

The watch, appropriately called Tikker, “counts down your life, in order to make the world a better place,” according to the creators of the popular new Kickstarter campaign.

It also keeps regular time, but its main job is still to remind you when you’ll die.

You simply fill out a questionnaire with inquiries about smoking, exercise and general health. That creates a special number from which you then subtract your age.

And there you have it: the exact number of years, months, days, hours, minutes and seconds until you take a big dirt nap.

With apologies to the word “exact.”

Tikker is, perhaps, a bit odd, but it’ll definitely be a good conversation starter at the company holiday party. And that’s what Fredrik Colting, the watch mastermind, wants.

Colting came up with the idea after his grandfather passed away several years ago.

“It made me think about death and the transience of life, and I realized that nothing matters when you are dead. Instead what matters is what we do when we are alive,” he said.

“The occurrence of death is no surprise to anyone, but in our modern society we rarely talk about it,” he said. “I think that if we were more aware of our own expiration, I’m sure we’d make better choices while we are alive,” said Colting.

At the time of this writing, with two weeks to go, pledges for the Tikker death watch are at just more than $70,000. Their goal was $25,000.

So, clearly, people are pretty excited about confronting their demise.

Though hopefully not enough to test it out with a moving train.

“I still have 30 years. Bring it, Amtrak!”

SMACK!