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More likely an inside joke they've had for years.
The joke is "be positive"
If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead
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#52Aside: 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…
> Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag.
Good writers have been using em dashes for years -- that's why AIs keep using them. :)
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#53Sorry 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.
As someone with ALS and won't see next year, please do not post my memoriam page to HN.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag. Good writers have been using em dashes for years -- that's why AIs keep using them. :)
Also, MS Word auto-corrects - into an em-dash just like it fixes quotes. Depending on which software was used to write it, it's very likely that's what happened.
I'm never suspicious of only one em-dash, as they are a perfectly valid, if infrequent punctuation. Three or more in an article this length would make start looking at the rest of it more closely, though.
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#55> A celebration of life will be held at The Verve Hotel, 1360 Worcester St. Natick, on Monday, September 29, 2025 from 6:00 – 9:00 pm. Please join my family to celebrate my life, have a glass of wine…some tasty nibbles… and don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes and your favorite story to share about me and my shenanigans! This is a great location for out-of-town guests to stay in a hotel as well. I'm glad that thi…
I think this is true when someone dies young or unexpectedly. After a long illness though, the family has likely already done a lot of grieving, and may even be feeling something more like relief than grief.
I know my dad felt that when his father passed. I did too, but not as much as he did, because my dad was taking his dad to doctor's appointments and caring for him after surgery and generally seeing him in very vulnerable circumstances.
I just don't at all think that this is equivalent to not acknowledging that someone is dying.
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#56I 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…
I've thought about this just so someone can let my cat out of my apt
"Someone take my cat's corpse out since I've been dead for a year."
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Either I'm missing your joke, or you missed the joke in the post. The throuple was with a respirator, not another person.
I read it as rolling with her own joke and lightening the load on the B+ rating (obviously also expressed as a loving ribbing given the context around it)
This. The man was a saint till the very end.
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#59I 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…
well, your blog kind of died, i guess.
that reminds me, i still need to revive mine...
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I've thought about this just so someone can let my cat out of my apt
"Someone take my cat's corpse out since I've been dead for a year."
Well... I have the automatic feeder/water so he's got time but I mean say you went to jail for 90 days, if no activity in a week or a month it would notify someone you know/emergency contact/your apt complex.