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How did the obituary know the date of death? Did she have a surgery that she did not survive?
by deadbabe 1y ago
How did the obituary know the date of death? Did she have a surgery that she did not survive?
- jsbg 1y agoedit: 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
- amelius 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch It is very tricky though. You probably want to have a bunch of fail-safes in place.
- smallpipe 1y agoYeah there's no way it's worth it for an obituary. You need it out in good time, so you can't have a delay longer than a few days. But it's definitely possible to be knocked out (or in a no-signal zone) for a few days and survive.
- amelius 1y agoThis being HN, let me say it could work as a service where the service (a human) would check if you are still alive after a timeout.
- suid 1y agoUh. yeah. Can you imagine her dragging herself up and reaching for a keyboard - "I'm ... not ... dead ... yet". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOW9QrLs0o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOW9QrLs0o
- twosdai 1y agoI 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.
- owlninja 1y agoAm I wrong or does it just look like a funeral home posted this for her? Likely filled in a few data points as requested?
- clms 1y agoNOPE. Linda’s personal words.
- bspammer 1y agoPresumably she wrote it as "when I died on <insert day of death>"
- clms 1y agoThis question is so absurd. The obit was written prior to her passing. It was obviously filled in by a family member. 100 truth