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More likely an inside joke they've had for years.
The joke is "be positive"
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#73I lost my wife earlier this year. She died unexpectedly in her sleep. I wish so badly I had something like this from her. Knowing that she considered her life well lived would mean the world to me. But of course that’s not possible, or highly unlikely, when someone dies suddenly. I guess that’s the trade off for not having to see her slowly waste away from a degenerative disease, for not having all my recent memories of her set in a hospital.
But fuck, I wish I had that. This was so nice to read, and must be a great comfort to her family in the midst of devastation.
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#74Sorry 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.
The same reason some political posts end up in HN. Nothing to do with tech, nor startups, nor anything related to them.
This page is just a curated American news outlet, with a decent comment section.
Edit: I'll obviously get downvoted for this, but that's my point of view. I'm from Europe.
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#75Sorry 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.
You won't be able to stop me.
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More likely an inside joke they've had for years.
I read it as either “he made some mistake that many people would consider unforgivable, but don’t judge a human by their worst day. We worked through it and overcame because he’s a good person at heart and I love him.”
That, or “I’m a demanding brat and you love me ”
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#78Sorry 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.
Framingham is a Boston suburb. Boston is maybe a #4-5 tech hub in the US, so there are a fair number of Massachusetts folks on here for whom it'll be a local story. I've seen non-tech Boston area stories on the front page once in a while.
Also when I first saw the headline, I (incorrectly) assumed it was an auto-posted obituary and clicked to see the tech. I could see in this scary political climate, with US morality on the rise, and a few prominent new "DeathTech" startups, this audience might be curious about tech for EOL planning. Long time HNers (the ones who are more likely to vote on articles) are aging and that cohort are now in their 40s–50s and increasingly aware of their mortality as they themselves, family and friends confront challenging medical issues.
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#79Sorry 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.
Hey friend, I just lost someone close to me from Parkinson's coincidentally the same exact day as the woman in the story and just a few miles from her. If you have any servers you want to keep running for a while or any EOL tech logistics your family won't understand I'd be happy to help. I can post your memoriam page wherever it belongs. My email is in my profile.
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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…
truth. Knew her and loved her. This was Linda. Mind you ALS is a long brutal disease. She wrote this. I’ll swear to it. Zero AI. The chipotle thing? Couldn’t be more true. You are dead wrong. Sorry.
Did she really write a book called "Fuck off, Cancer", only to then go around describing the book as “F Off Cancer, by Linda Brossi Murphy"? I don't think a published author would step back from her own boldness that way, or awkwardly insert her own name like this. This is the hand of someone else, a less skilled writer.