[jsbg]

edit: the funeral home published this

previous comment: could have been programmed as `Time.now - 1.day` to be published if no action was taken on the day of

[amelius]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_man%27s_switch

It is very tricky though. You probably want to have a bunch of fail-safes in place.

[smallpipe]

Yeah there's no way it's worth it for an obituary. You need it out in good time, so you can't have a delay longer than a few days. But it's definitely possible to be knocked out (or in a no-signal zone) for a few days and survive.

[amelius]

This being HN, let me say it could work as a service where the service (a human) would check if you are still alive after a timeout.

[suid]

Uh. yeah. Can you imagine her dragging herself up and reaching for a keyboard - "I'm ... not ... dead ... yet". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfOW9QrLs0o