Hacker News with Generative AI: Death

TTECK Has Passed (github.com/community-scripts)
Good afternoon! I am tteckster's wife. I don't have a clue if anyone will even see this because I'm not the computer savvy person that my husband was, but I wanted to try. I know that he posted an update regarding his health the other week, and I wanted to let you all know that he passed away a few days ago. If anyone sees this, maybe you could make a better post. Thank you for all that supported him.

Health, Death, Community

54 points by codeslave13 7 days ago | 5 comments

A Controversial Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending (newyorker.com)
If Glenn Horowitz comes calling, should you be flattered or alarmed? It means that you have an exceptional literary reputation. It also means that your time on earth is nearly up.

Books, Literature, Controversies, Death

81 points by acabal 30 days ago | 34 comments

Over 40% of foreigner deaths in Korea have unknown causes (koreatimes.co.kr)
The government has failed to establish the causes of more than 40 percent of deaths of foreign nationals who died in Korea in recent years, a Ministry of Justice report shows.

Korea, Foreigners, Government, Statistics, Death

45 points by type0 31 days ago | 30 comments

Australian Death Notification Service (deathnotification.gov.au)

Australia, Government Services, Death

18 points by teractiveodular 32 days ago | 8 comments

Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: 'If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal' (elpais.com)
The German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, in an image provided by the publisher Pinolia.Joerg SteinmetzRaúl LimónOct 06, 2024 - 16:15CEST<p>Is there anything after death? What is the meaning of life? Are we just a bag of atoms? The scientist Sabine Hossenfelder, born in Frankfurt (Germany) 48 years ago, is convinced that if there is a branch of science capable of finding answers to humanity’s existential questions, it is physics.

Physics, Immortality, Death, Existentialism

18 points by bookofjoe 40 days ago | 3 comments

Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: 'If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal' (elpais.com)
The German physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, in an image provided by the publisher Pinolia.Joerg SteinmetzRaúl LimónOct 06, 2024 - 16:15CEST<p>Is there anything after death? What is the meaning of life? Are we just a bag of atoms? The scientist Sabine Hossenfelder, born in Frankfurt (Germany) 48 years ago, is convinced that if there is a branch of science capable of finding answers to humanity’s existential questions, it is physics.

Physics, Death, Immortality, Philosophy

9 points by geox 44 days ago | 5 comments

Switzerland Police investigate first use of 'suicide capsule' (dw.com)
Swiss police say they have detained several people and opened a criminal case a day after the first use of the "Sarco" capsule to end a person's life. Assisted dying is legal in Switzerland in some circumstances.

Switzerland, Assisted Dying, Crime, Death, Technology

3 points by gmays 48 days ago | 1 comments

Life, death, and retirement (wordpress.com)
I haven’t been blogging much lately, and it turns out there is a very good reason.

Life, Death, Retirement, Blogging

319 points by david2ndaccount 50 days ago | 165 comments

Sex and birth are big business – suicide pods show death is next (thetimes.com)

Business, Death, Ethics, Technology

9 points by bookofjoe 52 days ago | 5 comments

Official documents confirm Navalny was poisoned in prison (theins.press)
The Insider has obtained access to hundreds of official documents related to Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in the Polar Wolf penal colony in the Russian Far North on Feb. 16, 2024.

Russia, Politics, Human Rights, Journalism, Death

47 points by acqbu 52 days ago | 36 comments

Woman meant to be first in 'suicide pod' said company tried to get her savings (msn.com)

Ethics, Death, Business, Lawsuits

14 points by impish9208 56 days ago | 1 comments

Swiss police make arrests over suspected death in 'suicide capsule' (theguardian.com)
Swiss police say they have opened a criminal investigation and arrested several people after the suspected death of a woman in a so-called suicide capsule.

Switzerland, Crime, Death, Suicide, Assisted Suicide

6 points by bookofjoe 58 days ago | 1 comments

Do Animals Know That They Will Die? (theatlantic.com)
Moni the chimpanzee was still new to the Dutch zoo when she lost her baby.

Animal Behavior, Death, Philosophy

95 points by XzetaU8 72 days ago | 67 comments

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen, and a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer's suicide (subtledigressions.substack.com)
Genius is fragile. Success, even more so. One has to wonder how many songs have been written that didn’t have a Jeff Buckley to rescue them from obsolescence. How many manuscripts and artworks lay in forgotten places, lost to us and future generations?

Music, Arts, Death, Success, Genius

170 points by Curiositry 75 days ago | 101 comments

Wells Fargo employee found dead at her desk days after she clocked into work (cnn.com)

Wells Fargo, Crime, News, Death

6 points by LopRabbit 79 days ago | 0 comments

Helen Fisher, who researched the brain’s love circuitry, has died (nytimes.com)

Neuroscience, Science, Death, Relationships

167 points by dadt 87 days ago | 36 comments

Death Cafe (deathcafe.com)

Death, End-of-Life, Community, Philosophy

41 points by unkeen 89 days ago | 14 comments

The staggering death toll of scientific lies (vox.com)