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

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

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How 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

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

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post #6

How did the obituary know the date of death? Did she have a surgery that she did not survive?

I think this was a planned post she wrote while dealing with her disease, and likely a family member added in some relevant details and posted it. I've had a few terminally ill family friends that want to reclaim some control in death what life had taken from them, so they plan their funeral and some post death things out ahead of time.
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