Murphy seems like a neat person. I'll check out her book.

I sense a bit of AI in this obit. Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag.

The way the author describes post-death events in the past tense, non-hypothetically, indicates that someone other than Murphy had a hand in its authorship.

(Would an author really write "Check it out, it’s called “F Off Cancer” by Linda Brossi Murphy"? That's not even the title of the book!)

There are many people, myself included, who have been using em-dashes a lot since forever. I wouldn’t consider it a “definite flag”, the letter itself feels authentic.

She could well have written in third person. She was watching herself dying slowly, separating further and further from her life. If it felt like I was already dead towards the end, I might just run with it when writing my life story. Just leave a few fill-in-the-blanks for details like the date and ceremony details for hubby to fill in.

The title is close enough. Censored, missed a comma and skipped the secondary title. Very human choices and mistakes. Not sure why we'd expect a dying loving woman to be hyper focused on getting the title of her book right.

> Most tellingly, a suspicious emdash after Chipotle is a definite flag.

Good writers have been using em dashes for years -- that's why AIs keep using them. :)

Maybe she liked to use AI.

> (Would an author really write "Check it out, it’s called “F Off Cancer” by Linda Brossi Murphy"? That's not even the title of the book!)

Perhaps there is some moderation happening on the blog.