Stranger Than Heaven: Digital Afterlife Services Spawn a New Generation of Morally Adrift Ghosts, Warns Clergy
In a trend that feels stranger than heaven, a growing number of tech startups are now offering "AI necromancy" services, allowing the bereaved to digitally resurrect deceased loved ones using text messages, voice recordings, and social media posts. As families clamor for these "ghost bots," religious leaders and ethicists are sounding the alarm, declaring it a catastrophic moral abdication. They argue that we are no longer mourning the dead but commodifying them, trapping the memory of the soul in a soulless algorithm. Critics warn this artificial immortality is a virus on the grieving process—and a clear sign that society has swapped the sacred for the synthetic.