Artificial intelligence brings the dead back to life. Funeral guide warns why to let the deceased sleep

Companies today promise us that they can recreate our deceased mother, daughter, brother, father, grandmother. In other words, they will create a digital avatar with whom you will write, talk, see each other on video, and in virtual reality you can even meet. The death of a loved one affects us like few other things. We miss their presence, we want to talk one last time, see each other one last time, comfort each other, say what we didn't manage to, or correct old wrongs to ease our conscience that everything is okay between us and the deceased.

Funeral guides call it a digital ghost. Just fill in personal data, upload photos, videos or voice recordings, answer a few questions, share profiles from social networks and pay a few dollars. And look, after a few clicks, the loved one "comes back to life" and is there for us again. Is it science fiction, a dream, reality? A real innovation would be if we stopped being so afraid of death and were able to say goodbye to our loved ones in peace and understanding. But no, we also want to physically involve technology in it. Funeral guide Oleg Vojtíšek warns mourners against this, he sees it in his practice every day, digital ghosts do more harm than good.