{"id":410714,"date":"2026-01-15T10:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410714\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T10:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T10:41:08","slug":"aimed-at-the-growing-number-of-young-chinese-who-live-alone-a-new-app-asks-are-you-dead-toronto-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/410714\/","title":{"rendered":"Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: \u2018Are you dead?&#039; &#8211; Toronto Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMi9wFBVV95cUxOZlMzUUtvcWN5aExaVzFuSk1qeER4aFdCMENZcmh5UWtTY1Z0cnNqZDFrQ3FNdTF1YXJEcEFKYUVTdXV5Q2JxblNwRE5mbnJUdWwxWHpmMWFlYy11N0R3TXFQZTEwbXlFaHZPcWtISjhzR3VqWEVlMmVuY28tbUpTRHluNTFWWnFVQ0VlaXdCeFlaOEozVkpyazB4OXFsVzA2MlJNaFlMcGhSS0U4OW1odU9ITHZIYk9QSVhfNjRUMVlIei1PUHFkcG1UNXZwWURnMWtPWEY4TVFoR2lrTHR3TmZxaW1hWTFiamFEdXlST3JwYXF2eVdn?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: \u2018Are you dead?&#8217;<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Toronto Star<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMihAFBVV95cUxPMDZqc1hKNmxGdmNhQ3hFdm9pVGdFRmkxXzY4TjBvb1BCUjhHeGJKX1VjbmJsclczcEw0ODItXzkyYU9DZ0R3Q1BvLXBZd2pwOTJfNThoVVRIS0d0XzR3WlFiUFR1Ynk5NU84MWcwTG9HOGxLM1hLY0ZJT2gzbDU0LXdUcnY?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Viral app in China taps into national loneliness by asking: \u2018Are You Dead?\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;CNN<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiWkFVX3lxTE1SNmhTcVlaQ1VXOUlpdnNDMG1FVEd5RVJPR1dFcWZiWkZyeG5VRVJaOXdpdi1OcEpsUnVva0ZhZnBJckNNVE9nVlBqUC1GTkpWSGlWeFF4X0UxUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8216;Are You Dead?&#8217;: The viral Chinese app for young people living alone<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;BBC<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiZkFVX3lxTE5QMHZmY0VmUW5YUnBuWGFlYU9sV0U1ZmtRMTlScUxZNUxjakNDWm5VVGEyTFF1Q1U0YTMwTVpzMERKY0lyVjRjc3lqemxyNGVvdGRVN2luZmdELXVFTGJwRDRFaVo3UQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">China\u2019s Hottest App Is a Daily Test of Whether You\u2019re Still Alive<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;WIRED<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: \u2018Are you dead?&#8217;&nbsp;&nbsp;Toronto&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[10360,9008,8580,45,172870,49,48,95,21190,84,77,890,190,66,61,17333],"class_list":["post-410714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-are","tag-as","tag-beijing","tag-business","tag-business-health-international-lifestyle-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-china","tag-dead","tag-health","tag-international","tag-lifestyle","tag-mobile","tag-science","tag-technology","tag-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}