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Links reviewed and updated: 9/28/2011
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Wikipedia Recent Deaths
Dead at Your Age - who died at your age?
Dead People Server Blasts from the Past Archive - you must remember this...
Obit Magazine
Washington Post² Mortem
Baby Boomer Death Counter
Death Indexes a state-by-state listing of newspaper death notices and cemetary listing information
The Political Graveyard, an amazingly-complete record of the births & deaths of American politicians
BrainyHistory Death Lists
The Eulogizer - Where Jewish Memories Live Forever
Who's Alive and Who's Dead
Darwin Awards - contains information about many people who died "creatively"

Living to 100 Life Expectency Calculator (one of Time magazine's 50 Coolest Websites of 2005) says I should last until I'm 87.5, which means I may make it to August, 2044, a good ten years longer than the other sites' predictions. Hmmm...I think I prefer this calculator to the other ones.
Death Clock (A few years back, Death Clock calculated my DoD as April 15, 2036 (79). Later - even though I've lost some weight, my date is sooner - it's down to Sunday, April 16, 2034. Now, it's gone way up to 2060 (I'd be 103). I kind of doubt that one. Stop back later to see if they were right! ;-> )
OK Cupid's Death Test (A very detailed test, with a very similiar DoD to the short Death Clock test - June 2034 (77). Death Test predicts I'll die of a heart attack; certainly a possibility, though none of my other fat relatives died from heart disease.)
Quiz Galaxy's "How Will You Die?" test has a whole different (and odd) opinion of when I'll die. Not that I don't drink, but as I'm over 50, it means I am no longer young. (Quiz response: "You'll die from a Drug or Alcohol accident at a young age. Let's face it - when you get drunk/high you lose all control and do stupid stuff. Unfortunately in your case those propaganda anti-escapism commercials prove true.")
UPenn's Longevity Calculator says I should make it to 85 (2042).

Death, like taxes (and, frankly, sex) is inevitable, so here are a list of links that talk about planning for the inevitable.

Closure: Changing Expectations for end-of-life
Cancer.Net Advance Cancer Care Planning
Caring Connections: Planning Ahead
The Guardian - What Really Happens When You Die?
How Doctors Die
The New York Times Will We Ever Arrive at the Good Death? by Robin Marantz Henig, 8/7/2005. Even if you haven't registered to read the Times, if you're curious about the current state of the hospice movement and some intimate views of death and dying, this article is more than worth the registration.
Virtual Autopsy
Beyond Indigo - Death and Dying Grief Support (also a great deal of information on fatal illnesses)
NPR's End of life Series

Internet Movie Database - the mother load for movie trivia addicts IMDb
Internet Broadway Database - ditto for Broadway trivia addicts IBDB
Famous Birthdays - kind of the flip side of Dead People Server
This Is Not Porn - a mostly amusing set of celebrity candid photos, photos of the famous when they were kids. These are the sorts of photos I'm looking for for the DPS Gallery.