Grieving in the Digital World means Never Having to Say Goodbye...but is it Best?

Learn everything from a bot-related way to die in the future to thoughts around having a digital surrogate to a deceased loved one.

In the book Love Story, love meant never having to say you’re sorry. Now, in the age of griefbots, death mean you never have to say goodbye. Griefbots are the creation of digital characters that imitate the way people who have died spoke and wrote. While these bots and AI avatars may be beneficial to the grieving process, there’s also a risk that they could keep us clinging to the past, spending our time with the deceased rather than the living, and find ourselves unable to move forward and grow.

In this Episode: (Show Notes here)

• 09:22 - How are People Going to Die in the Future? (segment 1): Malfunctioning Sexbot
• 11:48 - Recipe of the Week: Alabama Slammer
• 13:17 - Digital Remedy to Grief, Pros and Cons
• 31:48 - Phone Calls to Heaven: A Nurse contemplates life's fragility and preciousness
• 41:14 - Outro

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