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On the other hand, many people on HN just like most likely pretty much every human you meet needs to hear something like this in the end blurb: > If I get a s
by asveikau 7y ago
On the other hand, many people on HN just like most likely pretty much every human you meet needs to hear something like this in the end blurb:
> If I get a soapbox, here’s my short shtick: We are all so fragile. Each day is precious. And the most important parts of our lives are the relationships we invest in.
Carpe diem! Do something nice for your loved ones. Make friends with someone you dislike. Go be good to somebody who doesn't deserve it. Our time here is limited, there's little space to be petty.
- _bxg1 7y agoI doubt there's anyone in our society who hasn't heard that adage at one point or another. Not that it isn't meaningful, but I don't think hearing it repeated again justifies the toll on mental health that comes with it in this instance.
- grecy 7y agoI assure you, I've heard it (and said) it tens of thousands of times in my life. Looking back, I didn't even know what it meant until I lost my Mum a year ago at age 67 to cancer. Life is damn short, and the most important thing you can do is have happiness right now.
- asveikau 7y agoI suspect what you may be describing is that it doesn't resonate with everybody all the time. But I think it's pretty common for some life experience to hit hard and someone realizes that all the corny, hackneyed cliches, as silly and overly simple as they seemed, basically had something to it. Then it clicks. But I am sorry to hear about the toll on mental health.
- MiroF 7y agoRespectfully, it might be worth considering how people have a plurality or reactions to content. This content is obviously distressing and could have used some sort of warning. Not everyone thinks or responds the same and it is good to be conscious of that.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoI feel like the title of this one sufficiently conveys the kind of content you can expect. If you know this is a problem for you, you aren't required to read it. There will not be a test. The mods will not email you and inquire as to why you failed to comment on this particular article. When I first joined, I was extremely ill and I turned off Show Dead because it just upset the hell out of me to see dead comments and dead articles. And I knew it was because I was so very sick and that made me emotionally fragile. As I got healthier, that stopped bothering me and I turned on Show Dead because it's additional information and it's useful for knowing what is going on here. I'm prone to nitpicking titles and I don't have any problem with people nitpicking titles because they feel the title didn't adequately signal that is wasn't really the kind of content they come here for. But I think it's overkill to ask people to not submit this kind of content.
- MiroF 7y agoThe title implies that we're reading someone writing on their struggle with death, not the last published words of a dying man, insisting that he will fight a disease and try to beat the odds, punctuated by the editors note that he died days writing after the article. I'm sorry but I think that is deserving of a more explicit content warning, and I don't see what that would cost you or others.
- disabled 7y agoAgreed. This should have a content warning. But the micro targeting facilitated via big data on social media, which plays in to our hopes and fears, desensitizes us. I have 2 rare diseases myself, so I am pretty numb to articles like these, which is terrible, in and of itself.
- DoreenMichele 7y agoMy closing paragraph: I'm prone to nitpicking titles and I don't have any problem with people nitpicking titles because they feel the title didn't adequately signal that is wasn't really the kind of content they come here for. But I think it's overkill to ask people to not submit this kind of content.