What a novel about a dating app for dead bodies reveals about human connection

A novelist imagines the extreme answer Author Sarah Pierce explores dating apps, loneliness and human connection through a novel about a corpse-matching algorithm By Brianne Kane , Fonda Mwangi , Alex Sugiura & Rachel Feltman Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American ’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. I’m just old enough to remember a time when using websites and apps to go on dates was the exception, not the rule [1].

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1. scientificamerican.com · What a novel about a dating app for dead bodies reveals about human connection Sep 4, 2026

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