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  1. App for people living alone lets them offer proof they're not ...

    3 days ago · In China, a new one-button app popular with young people asks a simple question: "Are You Dead?"

  2. Chinese app performs welfare checks for young singles who ...

    4 days ago · Trending Chinese app "Are You Dead?" is helping combat the nationwide loneliness epidemic by keeping tabs on singletons who live alone to make sure that they're alive.

  3. An app’s blunt life check adds another layer to the ... - WTOP

    3 days ago · BEIJING (AP) — In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young Chinese people is definitively the latter. It's called ...

  4. ‘Are You Deadapp: China’s most downloaded paid app for the ...

    5 days ago · A new app has taken China by storm, becoming the most downloaded paid app in the country. The rather morbidly named ‘Are You Dead’ app checks in on a user every two days. If you …

  5. Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone ...

    3 days ago · Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: ‘Are you dead?' In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or stunningly direct.

  6. Viral app in China taps into national loneliness by asking ...

    4 days ago · In recent weeks, a morbid-sounding app has taken China by storm, tapping into widespread loneliness and youth disaffection in the world’s second most populous country.

  7. China’s ‘Are You Dead?’ app checks in on growing cohort of ...

    6 days ago · Are You Dead? has gone viral as an increasing cohort of Chinese young people are choosing to live alone rather than get married and have a family.