Death and Dying in the Digital Age
Everything You Need to Know about Ai Death Doula | Symon Braun Freck
July 8, 2025 · 41 min
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An AI app is changing how people die and grieve, and this episode explains how it actually works.
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In this episode
- What thanatechnology is and why it matters for end-of-life care
- How AI can deliver empathetic support to people who are dying
- The ethics of memorializing someone digitally after they are gone
- Where the line is between healthy grief support and digital dependency
About this episode
In this thought-provoking episode of the Death & Dying in the Digital Age podcast, host Niki Weiss sits down with death tech innovator Symon Braun Freck to explore the intersection of artificial intelligence, grief, and digital deathcare. From her early experience volunteering in hospice to building the Ai Death Doula, Symon shares how her journey shaped a groundbreaking app designed to support people at the end of life.She and Niki dive into the emerging field of thanatechnology, a fusion of death studies (thanatology) and tech, and unpack how tools like Ai are being used to deliver empathetic end-of-life support while preserving digital legacies and expanding access to grief resources. Symon also discusses the ethics of Ai memorialization, death literacy, and the delicate line between healing and digital dependency.Whether you're curious about digital remains, virtual grief companions, or how Ai is shaping the future of deathcare, this episode challenges what it means to die, and to grieve, in the 21st century.🔔 Subscribe for weekly episodes on tech, death, and legacy.🧠 Learn more at aideathdula.com
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About Death and Dying in the Digital Age
They say we die twice: once when we take our last breath and again when our name is spoken for the final time. But in today's world, there's a third passing to consider - our digital death. Welcome to Death and Dying in the Digital Age, a podcast that explores the uncharted territory of our online afterlife.
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