Hacker News with Generative AI: Loss

Remembering Nan Shepherd (lrb.co.uk)
In the months following my parents’ deaths, I decided to buy a flatbed scanner as a partial fix for the drifts of paper they had accumulated after sixty years in the same house – receipts, letters, photographs, notes and diaries.

Writing, Memoir, Loss, Personal Essays

11 points by lermontov 31 days ago | 4 comments

Schoenberg scores destroyed in Los Angeles fires (nytimes.com)
An estimated 100,000 scores and parts by the groundbreaking 20th-century composer Arnold Schoenberg were destroyed last week when the wildfires in Southern California burned down the music publishing company founded by his heirs.

Music, Fires, California, Loss, History

7 points by carlspeaking 39 days ago | 1 comments

All We Have in This World Is Ourselves (rxjourney.com.ng)
Earlier this week, one of my colleagues lost her father. It's really startling how much can happen within a 24-hour period. I'm not exaggerating when I say that something could happen in the next 24 hours that might drastically change your life, either positively or negatively.

Life, Mortality, Loss, Reflection, Personal Growth

67 points by chistev 134 days ago | 52 comments

China-born neuroscientist Jane Wu lost her US lab. Then she lost her life (scmp.com)