#dying — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dying, aggregated by home.social.
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CW: drugs psychedelics
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One memorable night, I found myself listening to the UPS guy
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2018/09/listening-to-the-ups-guy
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What Does It Mean To Live A Good Life?
The title of this post is actually a quote from an excellent post by Elizabeth Lopatto on The Verge. I’ll get to that in a minute. You should read it.
I read Lopatto’s article this morning, the morning after we said goodbye to my step-father-in-law, James Bach, at a lovely memorial service. He passed earlier this summer after a long battle with Alzheimers. Because his life intersected and touched so many different worlds it took what seemed like a Herculean effort to find a day that lined up with the schedules from those who populate those different worlds, allowing them to gather together to say their goodbyes.
It was a lovely day, a lovely event, and a lovely send off for a good man who led a good life.
Recovering from it all as I read the aforementioned article this morning, it got me wondering. Lopatto, leaping off from Zuckerberg’s recent manifesto that seems to offer something approaching a better approach to AI than the one all the AI gurus initially pitched that pissed off just about anyone other than their co-religionists, quotes the following:
Everyone will have an exceptionally capable personal agent that understands you, your goals, and everything you care about. Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more.
That begs the question, what happens to those personal agents when you die?
Do they gather and reminisce and celebrate the life that’s gone? Do they summarize it, write and send out the obituary to your contacts? Order your favorite flowers? Put together the slide shows? Order the food? Do they keep on keeping on, doing your thing after you’ve shuffled off the mortal coil? Does someone just flip a switch? Does it tally a score and measure the goodness (or the badness)?
Jim and I shared many a deep discussion about topics like this, and this is one I wish we’d had the time to share with before the disease came into his life almost a decade ago. I’m sure he’d have had plenty of thoughts on the matter.
Now I know a part of all of this is that some of the AI is everything crowd hopes it will lead to a future that lets them live in their bunkers or float on their yachts forever. I pity those that think that way.
Certainly I’m in a moment when emotions are still a bit raw. Even so, as I think back on yesterday when I watched family, friends, acquaintances, some of whom hadn’t seen each other in years, some of whom had never met, come together in a room and embrace their connections, listen to remembrances they knew they shared and discover similar ones they never knew they had in common, all made possible by the life of one good man, it makes me shake my head in wonder how intelligent individuals trying to paint our futures completely miss the point of it all.
Quoting Lopatto again:
Is the point of life merely to stockpile accomplishments? If that is what Silicon Valley believes, no wonder all the billionaires seem so unhappy all the time! They have traded experience for accomplishment, and cheated themselves out of their own lives in the process.
Cheat away on your own behalf. The rest of us will continue to experience the ups and downs that make life worth living, sharing, and remembering. Try as you might, that’s something you can’t quantify.
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#ai #ArtificialIntelligence #Dying #family #life #love #MarkZuckerberg #mentalHealth #Tech #Writing -
Julia: "I think I am #dying."
The Grin Reaper, DEATH: "I'm awfully busy, wait your turn Julia."
Small text: "The mythological character formerly known as DEATH"
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Google Search Is Dying. What Comes Next Is Worse
https://thewalrus.ca/google-search-is-dying/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250836
#HackerNews #GoogleSearch #Dying #FutureTech #OnlineTrends #WebEvolution
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FOOL: Come away, come away, death,
And in sad cypress let me be laid.
Fly away, fly away, breath,
I am slain by a fair cruel maid.William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Twelfth Night, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 58ff (2.4.58-61) (1601)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #twelfthnight #feste #burial #death #dying #heartbreak #passion #pining #rejection
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I don’t want to die, but I don’t worry about being dead.
[Emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum nihil æstimo.]Epicharmus of Kos (c. 540 – c. 450 BC) Greek dramatist and philosopher
Fragment 230 K-A = B 11 DK [tr. Douglas (1985)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/epicharmus/85106/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #epicharmus #cicero #death #dying #mortality #restinpeace
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@Lisoo
Ma compréhension superficielle est que :
- "L'équipe pluridisciplinaire" fait une évaluation puis des recommandations ;
- Le plan de compensation PCH est un formulaire qui présente les recommandations puis deux cases : "J'accepte" et "J'accepte pas".
Tu dois cocher la case "J'accepte pas".
Je propose que tu te simplifierais la vie en envisageant de signer et retourner un document où tu as indiqué que tu n'acceptes pas.Cette MDPH et d'autres admins pensent que son "public" (comme elleux disent) ne sait pas très bien pour lui-même. Elle ne prive pas directement de droit : elle impose sa démarche. Ce n'est pas français ; c'est la technocratie. Aller contre est possible et épuisant. Exemple : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Up-Paris
#condescendance #autoDéfense #dying #ActUp #validisme #pouvoir #servicesPublics
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Why do bumblebees die under the tilia?
https://piefed.blahaj.zone/c/nostupidquestions/p/863522/why-do-bumblebees-die-under-the-tilia
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My father's death—should we force the terminally ill to accept sustenance? Voluntary Terminal Dehydration can allow relief from suffering.
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2015/08/my-fathers-death
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He first deceas’d; She for a little tri’d
To live without him: lik’d it not, and di’d.Henry Wotton (1568-1639) English author, diplomat, politician
“Upon the Death of Sir Albertus Moreton’s Wife” (1651)More about this quote: wist.info/wotton-henry/28592/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrywotton #wotton #bereavement #death #dying #grief #grieving #loneliness #marriage #mourning #solitude #spouse #survivor #widow
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No further delays:
With soaring #temperatures in #Europe taking a toll on human #health, #WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged world leaders to “prioritise investment in #climate-resilient #health systems.”
With dozens of people in Europe #dying from #heat-related causes in recent days, the WHO chief said there cannot be “further delays” for #climate action.
#PeopleNotProfit #HumanRights #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency #death #heatwave
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She’s fading and closer this morning … I lean slowly down … cheek to cheek … in a whisper she says: “Am glad you gave me such beautiful children”.
Her three granddaughter are a blessing and a kindness for her.
She’s saying what she needs to say.
We hold hands for quite awhile.
Later all three granddaughters lay down with her in the hospital bed in the living room.
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https://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-activists-appeal-to-mp-not-to-use-her-ballot-position-to-bring-assisted-dying-bill-back-to-parliament/. "Disabled #campaigners have appealed to an MP not to use her #success in the private members’ #bill #ballot to launch a new bid to #legalise #assisted #suicide. Not Dead Yet UK hand-delivered a #letter to the #constituency #office of #Labour MP Lauren Edwards on Saturday, asking her to take forward a bill on #palliative #care rather than one that would legalise assisted #dying." See: https://www.notdeadyetuk.org/.
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In moving photo series, woman captures her parents waving goodbye to her for 27 years
http://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/leaving-and-waving-parents-27-years-photo-series-ex1/
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This is the last video in my series on developmental psychology. It includes a close tie to philosophy, because while explaining all the stages of adulthood, and wisdom (usually associated with old age). I also discuss dying, from the perspective of the dying person, and the mourners who remain.
https://youtu.be/JYKVezGfl2s
#psychology #pihlosophy #wisdom #wise #development #adulthood #oldage #death #dying #mourning #stages -
Every person is replaceable.
How often have I felt that, had to face that reality, and had to hear it said to me?
Yes, unfortunately I believe that too, because I’ve experienced it and seen it, even though it’s a sad realization for me.
What do you think?
Is every person replaceable?
#mastodon #fediverse #poll #YouWinAgainSi #life #walking #dying #working #world #humanity #people #human #humanity
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A quotation from William Winter
For I know that Death is a guest divine,
Who shall drink my blood as I drink this wine.
And He cares for nothing! a King is He!
Come on, old fellow, and drink with me!
With you I will drink to the solemn Past, —
Though the cup that I drain should be my last.William Winter (1836-1917) American dramatic critic and author
Poem (1860-01-07), “Orgia: The Song of a Ruined Man,” st. 13ff New-York Saturday Press, Vol. 3 No. 1More about this quote: wist.info/winter-william/83971…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #williamwiner #conviviality #death #drinking #dying #past #remembrance #toast #wine
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Your Old Devices Depend on Dying Sensors. The Silicon Labs Incident Proves It
https://www.cambridge.org/engage/coe/article-details/6a054b304770e67d92e8c7a2
#HackerNews #olddevices #dying #sensors #siliconlabs #technews #innovation
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Study Finds America’s New Retirement Age Is Death
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List of Things Dying
Edward Hopper Sun In An Empty Room (1963) The fly dies firstfalling somewhere unnoticed in a windowsillor into the bottom of a sinkthe spider waits for itin the same tired webit’s trusted all its lifebut nothing comes. The silent die nextthey wither slowlyin lonely apartments with bad plumbing,in hospital rooms,smelling like bleachthey dry inwardlike houseplantsleft in apartment windowsafter somebody moves outbut never comes back. An old man dies after thatthe ventilator coughslike a […]https://thetigressawakes.wordpress.com/2026/05/14/list-of-things-dying/
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#NearDeath #Afterlife #Death #Life #NASA #Consciousness #NDE #Survival #Dying #Living #Strange #Paranormal #Human #Spiritual #Spirituality #Science #Religion Very thought provoking, and from a NASA scientist. We hear these stories time and again, and it really makes you wonder…
https://www.dailymail.com/vertical-galleries/article-15794449/NASA-scientist-died-three-times-saw-thing-time.html -
Why more #Russians are reportedly #dying in #Ukraine than ever before
A grim new record
Russian #soldiers are now dying at an exceptionally high rate in Ukraine, according to #Ukrainian officials, in what could mark one of the #deadliest #killed-to-wounded ratios seen in modern #warfare.
https://kyivindependent.com/russian-losses-in-ukraine-may-have-set-a-grim-new-record/
#RussianAggression #RussianImperialism #RussianCausalities #RussianLosses #deaths #RussianSoldiers #killed
