The app, which requires users to check in regularly to confirm they are alive, has become the country’s most downloaded paid application in recent weeks.

Sometimes it's just nice for someone to acknowledge your existence ... and a Chinese company is cashing in on that feeling with a new app called "Are You Dead?" ...

“Some netizens say that the 'Are you dead?' greeting feels like a carefree joke between close friends — both heartfelt and ...

Are you dead?” That’s the question a viral app has been trying to ask people who are living alone in China. The app is called ...

"Are You Dead?", an app that sounds the alarm if a user doesn't check in every 48 hours, was one of China's top-selling paid apps on Tuesday as the country's growing class of solo dwellers flocked to ...

If I asked which is the world’s loneliest nation, you might well say Japan. Famously, Japanese has words for social ...

A new bleak-sounding app has been downloaded in droves by many youth who live by themselves - and fear dying alone.

A new Chinese app, controversially named 'Are you dead?', is gaining immense popularity by addressing widespread loneliness. Users must check in daily; failure to do so alerts emergency contacts. This ...

The viral app requires setting up one emergency contact and sends automatic notifications if the user has not checked in via the app for consecutive days.

Developed by three young people in their 20s, “Demumu” (previously named “Are You Dead?”) became the most downloaded paid app ...