Mount Calvary Sermons

Over the years people have applied for some very strange patents. Some of those ideas eventually see the light of day and make our lives easier; and some the inventors have quietly forgotten about, and others they wish they had. One of the strangest is owned by an amateur  inventor named David Kendrick. For some reason that I can’t work out, in 1991 Kendrick applied for a patent for a watch that would count down the minutes until your death. He designed this reverse watch to crunch lots of actuarial data, like your health, family illnesses, diet, lifestyle, and so on, and then calculate your life expectancy. It would then count down to the day you are supposed to die, according to that actuarial data, and display the somber truth of how long you have left. Kendrick believed his invention would serve a useful benefit to people because it would spur the wearer on to acts of kindness and heroism. Only got 25 years, 3 months, and 12 days to go – better write the great American novel, or swim the