If you are reading this obituary, it looks like I'm dead

Post by tiltowait » Tue, Sep 23, 2025, 9:16 PM UTC

yostrovs wrote: post #46

protonbob wrote: post #40

> 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…

Last year I was invited to a "living wake". The person was still alive and looked better than some of his friends. It was basically a party. But he had advanced brain cancer and did pass a few months later. The idea of such an event was and still is highly strange to me.

Post by clms » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:10 AM UTC

WolfeReader wrote: post #22

travisgriggs wrote: post #15

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…

Post by clms » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:14 AM UTC

zoeysmithe wrote: post #43

protonbob wrote: post #40

> 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…

Yep, this isn't great. Grieving people aren't in a "let's party" mood. It comes off as tone-deaf. This just stinks of "don't ever show real emotion" US 'tough guy-ism' as it sometimes translates via women. I remember being pressured to be either fun/funny or kind/nurturing. Actual real expression, expression of sadness, depression, etc was always something I was discouraged to do or even punished for. I remember feel…

Post by clms » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:16 AM UTC

skywardacoustic wrote: post #34

I wonder if she helped them write it or if it was done by her alone before it progressed far enough that she couldn't anymore, or if they just did it for her with advice from her family?

Post by clms » Wed, Sep 24, 2025, 5:18 AM UTC

owlninja wrote: post #11

deadbabe wrote: post #6

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?