Living and Dying on Airbnb
It is horrible what happened to the author's father.  But it is also inevitable.  Like a morbid million monkeys mashing away on keyboards, operating at scale in meatspace all but guarantees that someone will die whilst using the service.In America we have become accustomed to guard rails everywhere, and signs announcing the smallest hazards.  This is OK so far as it goes, but perhaps it makes us a bit soft.  Here we read about a tree swing that fell down when a full grown man used it.  At least 90% [1] of tree swings in America are built without professional engineering or even inspection.I'm not apologizing for the host in this case, but I do think that some people are open to living in a world where not every conceivable danger has been mitigated.  The hard part is finding anyone so willing once a freak accident happens to them.[1] I'm lowballing this estimate so much that it should be obviously true to anyone who grew up in the non-urban US.