LOL, You can’t even be bothered to stick by your own, probably made up argument, so you’re trying to make me? What? So you’re lazy *and* a liar? Like why even bother commenting?

Because, most folks who have taken basic psychology are fully aware that treatment for grief is subjective to the fucking person, taking an absolute stance is ridiculous

I can’t find anything related to this at all. Can you give me a few keywords? See my other comment directly above for the topics I’ve explored.

Hey, I studied basic psychology! What phenomenon or principle are you referring to?

Photographs and memories don’t have souls either. Nor do paintings, statues, or death masks. At least in my tradition, most things don’t have souls. I only see that as an issue if the creator insists the VR representation has a soul.

All of these conditions that psychics use to operate are not true for VR. You wrote a lot to admit, finally, that psychics are lying. People who create VR are not lying about the status of the creation.

And anyone who has gone through the grieving process knows how strange, uncomfortable and even frightening it can appear to outsiders. Sorry that this woman’s grief is not “normal” enough for your taste, but maybe don’t decide what is and isn’t good for someone with zero knowledge of either the context or reality of…

In this case, the mother seems to have benefited from it.

That’s a bad comparison.

I think the biggest issue with this is that it creates false moments and memories.  I can’t imagine remembering moments that aren’t real is healthy.  I’m with Luke though; I’ll let experts weigh in on the matter.  I don’t know shit.

anyone who has taken basic psychology

It’s been studied so extensively that you have yet to post anything saying as much? Okay.

That said, to publicize this for clicks and likes is pretty messed up.

Yeah, these comment are...really eye-opening. Everyone is either taking a personal experience and attaching it to this, acting like they’re experts on the internet, or, more of less, just straight up dunking on this family who are clearly struggling with the loss of a child.

It’s alarming how many people are desparate condemn, not just with careful “this could cause concerns”, but with absolute “this cannot help, this is terrible, an idiot knows that this is always bad” and so forth. That’s not a response that comes from knowledge or understanding, let alone empathy. Psychology absolutely…

I wonder whether people thought the same thing / resort to the same judgement about grieving with photograph when it was totally new technology way back when.

The thing is, it won’t help the family.

Boy, there’s an xkcd for everything, isn’t there?

If it were my actual son, I’d pay almost any sum of money to make that happen, even if I couldn’t hug him.  Just talking to him to him (even if he couldnt even hear me) would be beyond any valuie.  No idea how i’d feel about a digital representation.

To each their own I imagine.