Grief Tech and Pregnancy Loss
I thought this was a profoundly moving post about grieving miscarriages. If this app had existed years ago, I likely would have tried it out to make AI-generated versions of my children. She writes:
AI baby generators have since become regular fixtures in online pregnancy forums … They also crop up, albeit less often, in the darker, quieter communities where people grieve prenatal and perinatal losses. Such mourners have traditionally lacked the rituals and templates that come with other forms of loss. But their early adoption of these tools gestures at the not-so-distant possibility that AI will one day guide many people through the grieving process.
It’s a story of using “grief tech” to mourn a loss often overlooked by the rest of society. Go over and read the whole thing.
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Hmmm. I’m in two minds about that. The first is to let people grieve the way they want to grieve. If they find comfort from it, then I guess it can be a useful tool.
The second is that I am so glad I never thought about looking for something like this. I wouldn’t have been able to handle it as I was losing pregnancies. It would have made it much harder to “say goodbye” to them. It would have focused my grief in a way that wouldn’t have been healthy for me. So in the way that I grieve and more importantly, the way I healed, this would have been terrible for me. And I would hate for it to become a “thing” in infertility circles, where women feel pressured to do it, whether it helps them or not.