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I read a good chunk thinking this was a case of the telegram in The Master and Margarita: "Have just been run over by tram-car at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three pm come". She sounds like a wonderful person. Funny enough, I died in 2015. Well, I thought I was clever, I added a sort of obituary on my blog's RSS to publish only if I don't write for a whole year. In php I used strtotime(+1 year) , but for testing…
ALS is such a cruel disease. Cognitive recognition of a one way trip where all your functions shut down one by one. Highly recommend the book "I Remember Running" by Darcy Wakefield, which she wrote one finger tap at a time on her phone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diving_Bell_and_the_Butter...
Aside: 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.
Murphy seems like a neat person. I'll check out her book. I sense a bit of AI in this obit. Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag. The way the author describes post-death events in the past tense, non-hypothetically, indicates that someone other than Murphy had a hand in its authorship. (Would an author really write "Check it out, it’s called “F Off Cancer” by Linda Brossi Murphy"? Tha…
Sorry 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.
Sorry 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.
I think it's of interest because (1) it implicitly presents a question of how to go about a premeditated end-of-life message to be shared in an online space.
And (2) relative to typical prose in this context, it's a bit cheeky, more like an "aw, shucks" than a grand tragedy. Something about it reached across the veil of impersonality, again in a digital space. And to me at least it's raising a question of how you choose to express yourself and how that choice gives you life in the ability to be regarded and known by others, and perhaps an even more general question of how we're all already doing something like that on a day to day basis. I don't think anyone who voted on it said any of that stuff out loud but you could feel those themes as implicitly present even if it's hard to put your finger on exactly what they are.
To your point I don't think it's the only message that has questions like those behind it, but I don't think it's ever been teed up for community discussion quite like this.
Aside: 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.
Murphy seems like a neat person. I'll check out her book. I sense a bit of AI in this obit. Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag. The way the author describes post-death events in the past tense, non-hypothetically, indicates that someone other than Murphy had a hand in its authorship. (Would an author really write "Check it out, it’s called “F Off Cancer” by Linda Brossi Murphy"? Tha…
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He knew he was an A+ for letting her have more love at the end with the throuple. That’s class. That’s love. Bear with the swoosh for 1.5 years so your wife of 42 is happy. God he must be crushed right now.
I'm glad that this works for some people but in the west we have this extremely odd prejudice towards real grief. I'm convinced that it isn't healthy and not acknowledging that someone dying is extremely sad for them and their family doesn't allow for real healing.