Title: An old friend of mine died of cancer on Sunday, alone in a Thai government hospital, with no family or friends around him, in a language he didn&#x27;t really understand, it sad ending, it was not a dignified way to go.<p>His only contact with the others in world in recent months has been WhatsApp which I setup when I visited him earlier in the year. He had expected to live several months but things took a turn for the worse and rapidly deteriorated over a few days. WhatsApp the buggers put an arbitrary time limit on the app between updates so he was locked out - confused and desperate (coupled with the morphine), I guess he had enough mentally.<p>I presume his phone was never updating due to storage being near limit - tbf his phone was a mess and he was a technophobe, and since he never saved contacts just sent off the number I guess there was no record of his contacts in his main phone. I have in phone in my possession now, but my new number was not there for example, he had tried to call my old number via non Internet on the 8th. I&#x27;ve managed to sort out the hospital, the death certificates, family wishes, and temple send off, but I&#x27;m sure he would not of wanted to leave things in this way.<p>App devs - We&#x27;re not all in 1st world countries surrounded by friends and family, with techies to troubleshoot. Please don&#x27;t brick your communication apps on a time limit, maybe disable emoji or video calls or some non core functionality, but lets not go nuts and block the whole app for the sake of adding telemetry, ads, or more politically correct emojis. This wasn&#x27;t a protocol change or anything else afaik which makes me quite angry. <i>end of rant</i>
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