REUNITING WITH SOMEONE YOU LOVE
The following video dates from 2020. Jang Ji-sung "reunited" with her deceased daughter on a Korean TV show called "I Met You", using a virtual reality headset and an AI recreation of her daughter.
There certainly are mixed feelings with the idea of seeing a deceased relative or friend again. Because, on the one hand, you know it's a recreation, but it's significantly different to looking at a photo of that person, or video footage from long time ago. We have already seen scenes of how some people react to scary games or situations using VR headsets: They lose their heads and think it's real, and they jump or run, with the subsequent accidents like bumping into walls or furniture, so not everyone would be able to differentiate what is fiction and what isn't.
Watching a deceased child, love partner, brother or parents, being able to get close to them, trying to touch them, even feeling them through special gloves. I can imagine some people going insane after that.
You have to understand and accept that death is part of life. That our passage through this world is temporary and that we will all leave, some before others.
I've been thinking about the idea for a while and I just couldn0t find anything positive. It's just opening wounds that are more or less closed, because even if you missed your chance to tell that person something before they left, the image you will visualize is not that person; It's a recreation - "I didn't tell her I love you" - "I didn't tell her I'm sorry" - "I didn't tell her how important she was to me" - "If only she knew how much I miss her". It simply does not matter. It's not that person, therefore it's useless. You have to have a very strong mind to not come out of there with a bad feeling. I think about the people I've lost, seeing them again through AI, in such a realistic way, and it's clear to me that I would break down.
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