Hunting for dividend stocks that will pay you for the rest of your life may initially seem overwhelming. However, by using the investing snap test -- where you snap your fingers and imagine an existence without a particular company's products -- you can get a sense of how vital a business is to the world.

Two companies that pass this snap test with flying colors (in my opinion) are lithography juggernaut ASML (NASDAQ: ASML) and the world's largest spice maker, McCormick (NYSE: MKC).

Were ASML's lithography capabilities -- which are used to create semiconductor chips in virtually any modern technology -- to disappear, our digitally driven world wouldn't function anywhere the same. On the slightly less dramatic end of the spectrum, should McCormick's spices disappear, our lives would rapidly become quite bland as the company's flavor solutions are used by most of the world's major snack and beverage brands.

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Source Fool.com