Hacker News with Generative AI: Death

Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death, study (phys.org)
The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by researchers from University of Calgary, every living system emits light without requiring external excitation due to a biological phenomenon known as ultraweak photon emission (UPE).
Science, Biology, Life, Death, Research
114 points by pseudolus 5 days ago | 65 comments
Living beings emit a faint light that extinguishes upon death (phys.org)
The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by researchers from University of Calgary, every living system emits light without requiring external excitation due to a biological phenomenon known as ultraweak photon emission (UPE).
Science, Biology, Life, Death
14 points by geox 5 days ago | 2 comments
Living beings emit faint light that extinguishes upon death, according to study (phys.org)
The light of someone's life might not be just another person, but light in the literal sense. According to a recent study by researchers from University of Calgary, every living system emits light without requiring external excitation due to a biological phenomenon known as ultraweak photon emission (UPE).
Biology, Science, Research, Photon Emission, Death
6 points by OutOfHere 6 days ago | 6 comments
How Cory Arcangel Recovered Late Artist Michel Majerus's Digital Legacy (newyorker.com)
In 2002, the thirty-five-year-old, Luxembourg-born painter Michel Majerus was on a short flight from Berlin, where he lived, to his native country, when the plane crashed, killing him and nineteen other passengers.
Art, Digital Legacy, Legacy, Death, Biography
13 points by bookofjoe 8 days ago | 5 comments
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death (nick-lane.net)
What brings the Earth to life, and our own lives to an end?
Biology, Chemistry, Life, Death
69 points by mitchbob 10 days ago | 10 comments
San Francisco crypto founder faked his own death (sfstandard.com)
Jeffy Yu was days away from his 23rd birthday when he appeared to take his own life Sunday in a video. A flattering obituary appeared, calling the aspiring crypto mogul “a visionary artist, technologist, and cultural force” and “a tech prodigy from an early age.” A memecoin in Yu’s honor went up for sale.But in the days that followed, online sleuths raised doubts about the video’s authenticity. The obituary disappeared.
Cryptocurrency, Fraud, San Francisco, Death, Social Media
14 points by LorenDB 13 days ago | 2 comments
The Deathbed Fallacy (2018) (hjorthjort.xyz)
People on their deathbeds regret not spending more time of their life with their family, traveling more, worrying less, etc. I’ve heard this truism echoed by growth gurus and spiritualists. It is amplified by newspapers. It comes up at dinner discussions. The origin the list of regrets is the palliative nurse Bronnie Ware who listed the following most common regrets:
Death, Life Advice, Regret, Philosophy
282 points by mefengl 13 days ago | 148 comments
Crypto founder faked own death. We found him alive at his dad’s house (sfstandard.com)
Jeffy Yu was days away from his 23rd birthday when he appeared to take his own life Sunday in a livestream video. A flattering obituary appeared, calling the aspiring crypto mogul “a visionary artist, technologist, and cultural force” and “a tech prodigy from an early age.” A memecoin in Yu’s honor went up for sale.But in the days that followed, online sleuths raised doubts about the video’s authenticity. The obituary disappeared.
Cryptocurrency, Fraud, Social Media, Death
14 points by coloneltcb 15 days ago | 2 comments
AI of Dead Road Rage Victim Addresses Killer in Court (theguardian.com)
Chris Pelkey was killed in a road rage shooting in Chandler, Arizona, in 2021.
Artificial Intelligence, Crime, Law, Technology, Death
17 points by hdk 17 days ago | 0 comments
A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes (hyperallergic.com)
In 1903, a Russian-born inventor in Herkimer, New York, named Joseph Karwowski proposed a radical way of preserving corpses: suspending them in glass cubes.
History, Innovation, Death, Art
35 points by ohjeez 21 days ago | 26 comments
Body of Ukrainian journalist who died in Russian detention returned mutilated (cnn.com)
War Crimes, Ukraine, Russia, Journalism, Death
24 points by fodmap 23 days ago | 29 comments
The hospital where staff treat fear of death as well as physical pain (theguardian.com)
In a Danish palliative care unit, the alternative to assisted dying is not striving to cure, offering relief and comfort to patients and their families
Palliative Care, Death, Healthcare, Denmark
139 points by NaOH 26 days ago | 125 comments
Dad and the Egg Controller (2018) (pentadact.com)
After dad died, trying to be useful, we looked through his office. ‘Office’ is underselling it – there was so much equipment that it could equally qualify as a workshop or even a lab. It had the special kind of ordely chaos of a place filled with a thousand incredibly specific things, meticulously organised by type, when you don’t know any of the types.
Personal Stories, Technology, Death
110 points by wrong-mexican 27 days ago | 16 comments
Julian Assange and his family in Rome for Pope Francis's funeral (twitter.com)
Something went wrong, but don’t fret — let’s give it another shot.
Julian Assange, Pope Francis, Death, Family, Italy
6 points by giuliomagnifico 27 days ago | 0 comments
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 36 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 37 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 41 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 49 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 59 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 60 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 61 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 64 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 69 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 71 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 71 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 77 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 79 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 88 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 96 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 100 days ago | 2 comments