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Death goes real-time: Deutsche Borse has supposedly set up live feeds from undertakers to find out what age people are when they die:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6bf8f1a2-f1fa-11dc-9b45-0000779fd2ac.html
Obviously the issue of longevity hedging is important for pension fund management, but I just hope that traders don't get into manipulating the market, it could get ugly...
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