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Ask HN: How can I talk to people about death without freaking them out?

2 点作者 matryoshka超过 11 年前
My business is centered around death (not a funeral home). I am looking for ideas and suggestions on how to talk to people about death without making them uncomfortable. Death is inevitable and we need to embrace it. Thanks.

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Codhisattva超过 11 年前
In America you&#x27;re up against a great wall of silence. Our culture makes death taboo and few overcome it.<p>So perhaps you should focus on communicating with the few who are comfortable with talking about death and consider them your target market.<p>By communicating naturally and openly with those who are receptive you&#x27;ll also participate in an ongoing cultural change. Eventually, maybe even in your business&#x27;s lifetime, culture will change and the taboo will fade.<p>Until the taboo fades at the cultural level you&#x27;re not going to be successful at changing people&#x27;s minds. As a business you won&#x27;t have the time and exposure to others to remove the taboo.<p>Here&#x27;s why - individuals react to strong taboos without reason. You want to persuade people with reason. But it&#x27;s too late, they&#x27;ve already turned that off as soon as you say the word &quot;death&quot;. (It similar to the saying that no one ever changed their mind by losing an argument. But taboo is even stronger.)<p>But there are people who are not uncomfortable. Find them, start with them, and just talk about it. Don&#x27;t worry about others, they are not your market anyway. You can find the &quot;embracers&quot; in spiritual sub-cultures, pop self help bookstores, health care workers, and elsewhere. It&#x27;s a disorganized group, and not a community.<p>If you want to be an activist (instead of a business) then you might take a personal one-on-one approach. Talk, listen, repeat. The more an individual considers death and talks about it, the more comfortable they will become. In years, the individual may lose the taboo altogether.
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pktm超过 11 年前
Hang out with Buddhists. Seriously.
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