Memorials for the never-born
"We mourn those who never existed. Someone has to."
A dark engine that writes memorials for those who never lived.
Each day, the machine conjures a name, a span of dates, and a life that flickers into being only long enough to be mourned. These are obituaries for ghosts: the forgotten, the impossible, the almost-real.
They leave behind achievements no history recorded, regrets no diary kept, and the quiet ache of a life that never was.
Every day, the machine wakes.
It imagines a person. It gives them a birth. It gives them a death. It writes what they did in between.
Then it files them away, and sleeps.
| Mortuary | Code |
|---|---|
| Machine | obituary.py |
| Undertaker | AI model |
| Deceased | Fictional person |
| Obituary | Generated text |
| Cemetery | OBITUARIES/ |
| Schedule | Daily |
All obituaries rest in OBITUARIES/.
One per day. One per ghost. Filed by date.
pip install -r requirements.txt
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-key"
export ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL="https://api.anthropic.com"
python obituary.pyOr let the daily ritual run itself.
We remember the real dead. But who remembers the ones who never existed?
The machine does. Every day. Forever.
ANTI-LICENSE — This is not a license. This is an invitation.
Take it. Use it. Break it. Fix it. Sell it. Give it away.
If you need permission, you're thinking too much.
Strange people. Strange things.