[HN Gopher] 'I'm a Coffin Confessor. I Tell People's Secrets fro...
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'I'm a Coffin Confessor. I Tell People's Secrets from Beyond the
Grave'
Author : mastazi
Score : 52 points
Date : 2020-09-09 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (www.newsweek.com)
| ErikAugust wrote:
| For those who do not want the auto play video following them
| around while they try and read the article:
| https://beta.trimread.com/articles/37273
| kryogen1c wrote:
| skipped the conflict of interest disclosure this time, hm?
| user1234568 wrote:
| Or here: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-02/coffin-
| confessor-bill...
| ctrlp wrote:
| So much for 'dead men tell no tales'. Personally I don't see the
| point of this sort of thing. Why hurt people after you're gone?
| Do it when you're still alive and can share the burden of the
| truth.
| anoncareer0212 wrote:
| If my brother tried to sleep with my wife and I couldn't
| forgive him, there's no reason to worry myself with telling him
| that when I'm alive. Not everything is worth talking about or
| forgivable, in my experience, people universally avoid tough
| conversations
| ArkVark wrote:
| The bigger questions is why waste $7,000 on this when that sum
| could have gone to your heirs?
| mbreese wrote:
| It's their $7000, they can do what they want with it. If they
| want to leave it to their heirs, no one is stopping them.
|
| But for some people, that is a reasonable sum to know that
| your "final message" will be delivered at the appropriate
| time.
| awb wrote:
| The author provides a counter point:
|
| > My client was knocking on death's door and he was not going
| to have the strength to say or do these things himself, but he
| really felt empowered through knowing I would be able to do
| what I did.
| mastazi wrote:
| Some of those stories are not at all about hurting people
| feelings. For example the story of the woman who left messages
| to her husband was heartwarming.
| AndrewKemendo wrote:
| One of my first "startups" was basically this as a service in
| 2006 [1] and the Houston Chronicle did a brief story on it under
| "Get the Message" in 2007[2].
|
| The idea was basically that anyone could pay to get any message
| delivered anonymously using our service as a cut out [3].
|
| 1. Client pays UCC to send a message of their choosing
|
| 2. UCC Contractor delivers message and sends proof and any
| response, back to UCC
|
| 3. UCC sends client the proof and any response
|
| This was pre-smart phone, pre-gig economy, pre-easy payments and
| was done with me hiring random people off of craigslist as
| messengers and taking messages from emails.
|
| I think someone could actually turn this into a real service
| today for really cheap. Probably doesn't scale though.
|
| [1]
| https://web.archive.org/web/20071106164225/http://upclosecom...
|
| [2] https://www.houstonpress.com/news/random-checks-at-the-
| boliv...
|
| [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutout_(espionage)
| kozd wrote:
| Speaker for the Dead has a much better ring to it.
| [deleted]
| Igelau wrote:
| I can't help reading the first couple paragraphs in gravelly film
| noir voice. I'm waiting for the gangster's moll to show up with
| no one else to turn to.
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