grief tech

alternative grieftech

1. uncountableTechnology and services designed to help commemorate or simulate deceased loved ones.

   Then there is the growing field of “grief tech,” aiming “to take the sting out of death,” as a Financial Times headline recently put it.

   2024 [2023], Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Vintage, →ISBN, page 60

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   This burgeoning field, sometimes called “grief tech”, promises services that will make death feel less painful by helping us to stay digitally connected with our loved ones.

   [2023 July 18, Aimee Pearcy, “‘It was as if my father were actually texting me’: grief in the age of AI”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

   For $199, you can live for ever. At least that’s the promise of an app called HereAfter AI, which might let you haunt your family for generations. The app is part of a fast-growing industry known as grief tech – a cluster of startups exploring how technology can commemorate, simulate or even resurrect the dead.

   2025 March 5, Patricia Clarke, “You and me, we gonna live forever … as avatars, at least”, in The Observer

   Synonyms: grief technology