How did the obituary know the date of death? Did she have a surgery that she did not survive?
Am I wrong or does it just look like a funeral home posted this for her? Likely filled in a few data points as requested?
If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead
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#12How did the obituary know the date of death? Did she have a surgery that she did not survive?
edit: the funeral home published this previous comment: could have been programmed as `Time.now - 1.day` to be published if no action was taken on the day of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch
It is very tricky though. You probably want to have a bunch of fail-safes in place.
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#13How did the obituary know the date of death? Did she have a surgery that she did not survive?
edit: the funeral home published this previous comment: could have been programmed as `Time.now - 1.day` to be published if no action was taken on the day of
Uh. yeah. Can you imagine her dragging herself up and reaching for a keyboard - "I'm ... not ... dead ... yet". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOW9QrLs0o
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#14Presumably that also means there's no one to bring the server back up.
I know it feels like everyone is in tech, but, in fact, there's no evidence for that here:
After I graduated, I had a brief stint as a Nursing Home Administrator until David Jr. was born, then stayed home and hatched a couple more pups over the next few years. In 2000, I formally joined the family real estate business and worked there until I was diagnosed… with ALS (I kept working through my long battle with cancer 12 years ago) … Yikes!! Cancer…THEN ALS. Ugh, Honestly, you can’t make this stuff up! I am very proud of the book I wrote about my journey through cancer. Check it out, it’s called “F Off Cancer” by Linda Brossi Murphy.
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#15Aside:
In an era of generative texts and humanity pushing the bounds of what to do with them, how does one verify the authenticity of something like this? Does it matter?
~1500 people (US) die of this per year.
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#16Sorry to be dense, but can someone explain why this is on the front page? Obvs sad for this person, seems like she had a fun time, but that's true of millions of people. Take this as "Help me see what I'm obviously not seeing", not a complaint.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
edit: the funeral home published this previous comment: could have been programmed as `Time.now - 1.day` to be published if no action was taken on the day of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch It is very tricky though. You probably want to have a bunch of fail-safes in place.
Yeah there's no way it's worth it for an obituary. You need it out in good time, so you can't have a delay longer than a few days. But it's definitely possible to be knocked out (or in a no-signal zone) for a few days and survive.
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#18Cool way to write up an obit, sounds like the world lost a good one.
With multiple references to Dunkin' and scratch tickets in lieu of flowers, I feel like I was reading this in her accent.
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#19How did the obituary know the date of death? Did she have a surgery that she did not survive?
Presumably she wrote it as "when I died on "
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch It is very tricky though. You probably want to have a bunch of fail-safes in place.
Yeah there's no way it's worth it for an obituary. You need it out in good time, so you can't have a delay longer than a few days. But it's definitely possible to be knocked out (or in a no-signal zone) for a few days and survive.
This being HN, let me say it could work as a service where the service (a human) would check if you are still alive after a timeout.