OK! Who's ready to find out if they're about to die? There's a really simple way to do it. You don't need any special equipment. You don't need to put a drop of your blood on a test strip and send it off to a lab. You only need enough space on the floor to sit down.

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I'm talking about the sitting-rising test (SRT). This terrifyingly simple way to calculate the hardiness of your own mortality is the brainchild of Brazilian physician Claudio Gil Araujo, who believed the tests available at the time for gauging a person's flexibility, balance, and muscle strength were too cumbersome or time consuming. Seeing as how those three things provide one of the most surefire ways to predict how much time a person has before escaping the mortal coil, identifying a more user-friendly way to measure them was of the utmost importance.

What Araujo came up with is the very definition of simplicity -- all you do is sit down and then stand up.

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Try it right now!

Well, there's slightly more to it. Here's how it works:

1. Stand up. Wear comfortable clothes and no shoes. Make sure you have lots of room on the floor around you.

2. Lower yourself to a sitting position on the floor, making sure to not lean on anything.

3. Stand up again, and try to do it without using your hands, knees, forearms, or the sides of your legs.

Each movement -- once down, once up -- counts for five points. Deduct one point for every time one of the aforementioned appendages or body parts is used for support. Deduct half a point for every time you lose balance.