China’s singles don’t want to die alone–or low-tech for that matter, evidently.
I guess “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up” doesn’t have the same panache as “你死了吗?” (Nǐ sǐle ma?)
Read the rest of the article. It’s morbidly fascinating/fascinatingly morbid.
A little after she got covid in 2021, my then 86-yo mom announced she was going to send an email to me and my brother every morning to let us know she was alive.
“You can’t just send us an email without content,” I said, so since then every day we’ve gotten an email with a brief summary of her health status, or what she’s up to, or whatever’s on her mind.
Kinda the same thing, I guess.
Some mornings the email comes at 7:30, sometimes as late as 9:30. To be honest, the 9:30 emails are concerning (and she once slept in and I went to her house at 10AM, sure of what I’d find, but it turned out okay)
Interesting idea. I wouldn’t have anybody to notify.
Unless you’re a young person with significant health problems and/or lead a high-risk lifestyle, such an alert feature seems superfluous.
If two days have to pass before your emergency contact is notified, that might not even prevent your body being gnawed on by a pet.