Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are confronting a profound demographic shift as their populations age at an unprecedented pace. Compounded by a severe lack of burial space, this crisis has spawned a booming market for innovative memorial technologies.
From artificial intelligence-generated avatars to DNA-embedded gemstones, these tools promise to recreate loved ones in digital form. While these advancements offer new ways to honor the deceased, they also spark intense debate over whether such technologies facilitate healing or complicate the natural grieving process.
An investigation by 101 East examines how these emerging digital solutions are fundamentally altering the way families in East Asia say goodbye.
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