Signals & Silence

  Death is one of those topics we’d all rather swipe past . It’s uncomfortable, unsettling, and for most of us, wrapped in layers of mystery we’d rather not unwrap. But here’s the thing—sometimes the best way to make sense of something this heavy is to explain it in the language we actually live in: the digital one. Think of your life like being on WhatsApp . While you’re here, you’re part of countless groups —family chats, work updates, old friends still sharing memes from 2014. Now imagine getting removed from one group . Sure, you can’t see what’s going on in that space anymore, but you’re still in plenty of others. That’s like losing a job , ending a relationship, or moving away: you’ve lost one channel, but you still exist. Now imagine your entire WhatsApp account being deleted . No groups, no profile picture, no last seen. You don’t even know what’s happening in those chats anymore—and they don’t know what’s happening with you. That’s death in a nutshell. In this post...