• Melobol@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    My favorite part is the amount of haunted houses in a 250yo country. Versus anywhere else in the world.

    • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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      The issue is that Americans die with a shit ton medical debt. Medical debt counts as unfinished business, because the debtors keep calling our detached souls about the debt.

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        3 days ago

        Now I’m imagining a bunch of spammers and debt collectors having a séance to contact the dead about their extended warranty.

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          You have accurately described life and death in America. Lol.

          In all honesty, though, it’s pretty bad. My mom passed away last year, and obviously that meant that certain things she normally paid stopped getting paid, what with her bank accounts being closed and whatnot.

          I began to get dozens of calls a week from debtors. I would inform them she had passed away. Some said okay, they’d stop calling. Some requested proof. Some called me a liar outright. And some said things like “Well, how are you going to pay this, then?” And began demanding money from me.

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          3 days ago

          I get at least one call a day from people offering cash for my house. You’ve given me a good idea for a response: “I’d like to sell, but I’m actually dead.”

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      4 days ago

      People in recent years all know ghosts aren’t real, so when they died, they just knew better and went straight to the afterlife. The old ones just haven’t gotten the news, since they didn’t have that when they died either.

    • Programmer Belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      You see, the United States is already hell on earth. Actual hell is using it as temporary housing for the slavers and pedophile elites. Some of them are ghosts, others are a little more alive.