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Sunday, November 12, 2017

It's time to move on

The idea of someone being able to still communicate with someone after that person has passed seems to be something that is not only helpful to the process of grief but also something that could be seen as a means of comfort, but as I  said this is only based on the idea, not the actual thing. I personally do not agree with it becoming a thing, that would be like my mother passing and I decide to get a robotic version of her so that I would never really have to let her go, its not right and its definetly not as helpful as we would want it to be. Sadly people die, that is the way in which the world works and with each death comes a moment in which it is time to move on in life. you don't nessicarily need to forget but you definently need to move past the hard times so that new, better times can arrive. In the video that we watched, "be right back" I believe is what it is called, the woman who loses her husband was smart at the beginning by not allowing herself to sink down into her grief but of course with a new sense of pregantancy and the father being the one for which died, her judgement then got fuzzy and like every other irrational thinker, she decided that talking to a computer version of her late husband was a fantastic choice. This choice of hers should have never been created because then the act of actually getting the robotic version would have never happened and she could have moved freely in her life instead of forever being stuck with this "fake Ash" secretly living in her attic. I understand that some people feel as if they need some sort of closure or some people try to search for aswers once their loved ones have died, but getting a computerized version of that loved one is not how you get those answers and its not how you get the closure you need either. You cant just expect these things to be easy and you definetly cant expect them to make sense but you do have to accept that they do happen and that you need to deal with it like every other rational human being, by crying, mouring, and like I said before, just simply moving on.

1 comment:

Brianna Bell said...

I completely agree with your blogpost! I think the technology was an incredibly stupid invention for the simple fact that she was unable to properly mourn and move on from the traumatic event. Granted, she was pregnant and it was probably so much worse having to find out she was pregnant right after her husband died, but she never coped with his death. You did share some interesting points in class when we discussed the film. I would like to know your theory on her actions at the end. Aside from putting Ash in the attic, she seemed to be contemplating heavily. Do you think she was just remembering her late husband or do you think it was deeper thoughts than that?