When Grieving Goes Wrong?

    In "Be Right Back," Martha has to cope with the fact that her partner Ash(or Ash 1) is dead. At first, she seemed to be coping with her grief normally, but when she decides to follow her friend's advice by trying to "speak" to Ash 1virtually, things go downhill from there.

    As humans, we need to realize that nothing lasts forever and change is inevitable. When people try to disrupt that change, it only brings consequences. Martha trying to speak to her late partner Ash 1 was the first ripple. While it would seem effective for some people, Martha didn't use the program to come to terms of her late partner. Instead, she used it as a crutch and practically had a mental breakdown when she thought she couldn't speak to "Ash" anymore. 

  Furthermore, when Martha decided to try to make a replica of Ash 1, things started to get out of hand. She knew that Ash 1 was dead, but she wanted to try to make a new Ash(Ash 2) anyway, but no matter how much data she imputed into Ash 2, he could never be like Ash 1. With technology so advanced, she didn't need to understand how to deal with the emotional pain like losing a loved one. This was clearly unhealthy for her in the long run.

   This brings a lot of questions about society. How would children growing up view the world if they knew if everything can be replaced? Would they cherish things the same way? How would they react when they think everything can be replaced but find something that can't? Would everybody turn into a Martha until they figure out the proper way to handle emotional pain like death?

   However, even though Martha would feel emotional anguish every time she looked at Ash 2, her experience with him did help her grieve in a weird way. Whenever Martha will look at Ash 2, she faces the terrible mistake she made. She realizes that you can't always get back what you lost and can pass this down to her child and whoever thinks that they can try to, essentially, bring back the dead.

  At the end of the day, people will go through the grieving process in whichever way they want to. There should, at least, be regulations in place to make sure that the person is of sound mind when trying out the project, or it should be banned altogether. Dealing with such powerful emotions might push someone over the edge.