Vicki Komisar
@vkomisar.bsky.social
Reposted by Vicki Komisar
Reposted by Vicki Komisar
This was sad to read. When my mom passed away, writing the obit was cathartic and my family valued being able to weigh in with memories, and took comfort in reading it in the months that followed. I can’t imagine ceding that privilege to a computer.
I think the use of chatbots for stuff like this is intended to train people to use it to avoid everything that’s painful or hard. It can write the obituary, the breakup text, the complaint letter. It’s meant to separate humans from their difficult feelings. Seems bad.
New: A few weeks ago, when my father-in-law died, the funeral home asked if we wanted to use AI to write his obituary. So I dug into it and found that it's the biggest new trend in "death care." Tens of thousands of AI obits have been made already. Often the families don't even know wapo.st/4okuxIg
August 4, 2025 at 3:32 AM
This was sad to read. When my mom passed away, writing the obit was cathartic and my family valued being able to weigh in with memories, and took comfort in reading it in the months that followed. I can’t imagine ceding that privilege to a computer.