Hacker News with Generative AI: Death

What Is Death? (preservinghope.substack.com)
In the past few decades, medical science has rendered obsolete centuries of experience, tradition, and language about our mortality and created a new difficulty for mankind: how to die.
Death, Medicine, Language
6 points by paulpauper 9 days ago | 0 comments
My parents holding hands after their assisted death (theguardian.com)
This is a photo of my parents right after their deaths, in Assen, the Netherlands, on 1 May 2024. My father Klaas Roemers was 90, my mother Fenny Roemers-Visser was 86.
Assisted Suicide, Death, Family, Netherlands
13 points by tiniuclx 10 days ago | 0 comments
Top regrets at the end of life, according to a death doula's 1k patients (fortune.com)
Death, Regret, Life Lessons, Death Doula
13 points by aard 13 days ago | 3 comments
W.G. Sebald and the Politics of Melancholy (newrepublic.com)
W.G. Sebald’s premature death from a heart attack, in December 2001, at 57—months after the publication of his novel Austerlitz propelled him to the height of his literary fame—has left his readers wanting more, and ever since, his publishers have increasingly delved deeper into his oeuvre for posthumous releases.
Literature, Politics, Death, Obituary
26 points by Hooke 21 days ago | 3 comments
Samsung CEO Jong-hee Han has died (engadget.com)
One of Samsung's CEOs, Jong-hee Han, has died due to a heart attack, according to Reuters and CNBC.
Samsung, Business, Death, Technology
258 points by ksec 32 days ago | 156 comments
Ex-US Attorney Jessica Aber Investigated Russia, CIA Leaker Before Death (newsweek.com)
Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jessica Aber, who was found dead at the age of 43 by Virginia authorities on Saturday, was at the helm of high-profile investigations into intelligence leaks, allegations of war crimes against Russian-linked individuals and people suspected of providing sensitive U.S. technology to Moscow before she stepped down at the start of the year.
Law Enforcement, Intelligence, Russia, Espionage, Death
34 points by doener 33 days ago | 2 comments
Ex-US Attorney Jessica Aber Investigated Russia, CIA Leaker Before Death (newsweek.com)
Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Jessica Aber, who was found dead at the age of 43 by Virginia authorities on Saturday, was at the helm of high-profile investigations into intelligence leaks, allegations of war crimes against Russian-linked individuals and people suspected of providing sensitive U.S. technology to Moscow before she stepped down at the start of the year.
Law Enforcement, Russia, Intelligence, Death
8 points by throwaway5752 34 days ago | 1 comments
Dead People Database: DOGE deletes names of 3.2M individuals aged 120+ (indiatimes.com)
Data, Privacy, Technology, Death, Cryptocurrency
9 points by teleforce 37 days ago | 0 comments
Daniel Kahneman died last year by assisted suicide (jpost.com)
Israeli-American psychologist and Nobel Prize winner in economics Daniel Kahneman, who died last year, used doctor-assisted suicide to end his life, a Wall Street Journal essay revealed on Friday.
Death, Assisted Suicide, Psychology, Nobel Prize
16 points by wslh 42 days ago | 1 comments
My pet rat is dying. I can't stop thinking about all the things he taught me (theguardian.com)
But here’s the thing: Bob is my son. He is kind, cuddly, stubborn and wilful. Even people who don’t like rats are moved by him.
Pets, Animals, Relationships, Death
7 points by arp242 43 days ago | 1 comments
Swedish Pirate Bay co-founder Carl Lundström dies in plane crash (thelocal.se)
Swedish businessman Carl Lundström, co-founder of illegal file-sharing site The Pirate Bay, has died in an aeroplane crash in Slovenia, according to the far-right party he was linked to.
Death, Business, Piracy, Sweden, Aviation
40 points by Jerry2 44 days ago | 12 comments
Gene Hackman died of heart disease, his wife died of hantavirus 1 week earlier (wfsb.com)
Authorities revealed Friday that actor Gene Hackman died of heart disease and showed severe signs of Alzheimer’s disease a full week after his wife died of hantavirus in their home.
Celebrities, Health, News, Death
12 points by howard941 49 days ago | 9 comments
A 'Third State' Between Life and Death That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious (popularmechanics.com)
A growing number of new studies have found that, at least for some cells, death isn’t the end, but the beginning of something wholly unexpected.
Biology, Consciousness, Death, Science
13 points by rolph 51 days ago | 2 comments
Ask HN: My father passed away. How do deal with the grief? (ycombinator.com)
It has been one month since he passed and i have been continuously crying. I am writing this with tears in my eye.
Grief, Personal Experiences, Advice, Support Groups, Death
37 points by gogo61 60 days ago | 26 comments
Death of OpenAI whistleblower deemed suicide in new autopsy report (techcrunch.com)
Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI employee, was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26; on Friday, the city’s medical examiner ruled his death a suicide, countering suspicions by his family that had fueled widespread speculation online.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Technology, Death, Suicide
3 points by SanjayMehta 69 days ago | 1 comments
The Hallucinatory Thoughts of the Dying Mind (nautil.us)
Delirium exposes the gap between the ideal and the reality
Death, Consciousness, Neuroscience, Psychology
25 points by dnetesn 73 days ago | 2 comments
The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind (mitpress.mit.edu)
Delirium is one of the most perplexing deathbed phenomena, exposing the gap between our cultural ideals of dying words and the reality of a disoriented mind.
Death, Neuroscience, Psychology, Medicine, Cultural Studies
179 points by anarbadalov 75 days ago | 131 comments
What happens to your online accounts when you die? (digitalseams.com)
A few months ago, I heard of a work acquaintance's death via his company's social media. Shocking and abrupt - I had just met up with him (let’s call him George) for the first time. We joked over beers in a cozy little alleyway cafe, me and a coworker and George.
Death, Online Accounts, Digital Legacy
154 points by bobbiechen 76 days ago | 65 comments
An OpenAI whistleblower was found dead in his apartment (fortune.com)
A few months before his death, 26-year-old Suchir Balaji spoke out against his former employer, ChatGPT-maker OpenAI
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Whistleblowers, Death
38 points by trymas 76 days ago | 2 comments
Human corpses keep moving for over a year after death, scientist says (2019) (newsweek.com)
Human corpses move around significantly as they decompose, according to an Australian researcher who observed a dead body over a 17-month period.
Science, Death, Decomposition
101 points by andrewaylett 90 days ago | 72 comments
John McAfee 'returns from the dead' to promote a memecoin on Elon Musk's X (mashable.com)
If enough hasn't already happened this week – John McAfee is apparently back from the dead.
Cryptocurrency, Elon Musk, Social Media, Death, Memecoins
8 points by raybb 93 days ago | 2 comments
David Lynch, Twin Peaks and Muholland Drive director, dies aged 78 (theguardian.com)
David Lynch, the maverick American director who sustained a successful mainstream career while also probing the bizarre, the radical and the experimental, has died aged 78.
Film, Death, Obituaries, Director, American
158 points by helsinkiandrew 100 days ago | 2 comments
David Lynch has died (variety.com)
Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78.
Film, Death, Television, American Cinema, Surrealism
1190 points by wut42 100 days ago | 378 comments
An Illustrator Dies, His Last Book Unfinished. In Steps His Son (nytimes.com)
Charles Santore was in the middle of illustrating the children’s book he did not know would be his last when he began to feel weak.
Family, Death, Art, Books, Children's Literature
7 points by prismatic 103 days ago | 1 comments
Killing Orson Welles at Midnight (2011) (nybooks.com)
It’s two in the afternoon. No one is groaning; no one turns over in bed or hits an alarm clock—it’s much too late for that. Love set you going like a fat gold watch.… But by two o’clock the morning song is just a memory. We are no longer speculating as to what set us going, we just know we are going. We are less sentimental in the afternoon. We watch the minute hand go round: 2:01 becoming 2:02 becoming 2:03.
Time, Literature, Death
19 points by bookofjoe 112 days ago | 4 comments
Do You Believe in Life After Death? These Scientists Study It (nytimes.com)
Is reincarnation real? Is communication from the “beyond” possible? A small set of academics are trying to find out, case by case.
Science, Death, Reincarnation
18 points by jbegley 113 days ago | 4 comments
Human composting is rising in popularity as an earth-friendly life after death (cnn.com)
Human Composting, Environment, Death, Sustainability
9 points by mooreds 118 days ago | 2 comments
Family of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji demand FBI investigate death (theguardian.com)
Poornima Ramarao greeted everyone with a smile as they offered condolences for the death of her son, Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI researcher and whistleblower who was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on 26 November.
Artificial Intelligence, OpenAI, Law Enforcement, Death
288 points by c420 118 days ago | 123 comments
Parents of OpenAI Whistleblower Don't Believe He Died by Suicide, Order Autopsy (sfist.com)
There is a bit more intrigue around the tragic death late last month of former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji, who was found dead in his Lower Haight apartment of an apparent suicide.
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence, Death, Suicide, Investigations
230 points by miles 120 days ago | 151 comments
Voices from the Dead Letter Office (harpers.org)
Who can deny that the letter—pen, paper, envelope, stamp—is dead, incontrovertibly, relentlessly, unforgivably, unmistakably dead?
Writing, Death, Communication, Technology
8 points by tintinnabula 125 days ago | 0 comments