The Fall of the House of Usher (2023)
Anyone who says they want to see the “complete and total eradication of grief” vastly overrates what bots will be able to do but also speaks to how tech solutionists misunderstand what it means to exist in the world. A hollow amalgam of a loved one’s utterances can never replace what is lost.
Tech entrepreneur Justin Harrison is on a mission to fundamentally change how we experience loss, using artificial intelligence to recreate the essence of dead loved ones from their digital footprint....
Once upon a time, I wrote something on a blog about not being sure what my parents' views on mortality were. My dad read it and sent me an email, where he recounted something he had told my sister on the subject. I think this was before my mother died, maybe a bit after her initial diagnosis.
Literally and precisely "Be Right Back", Black Mirror episode S02E01.