Is a Lasting Digital Memorial to a Dead Person Even Possible?

An expert on the digital afterlife responds to Cat Rambo's "The Woman Who Wanted to Be Trees." You never know precisely how much time you have left, despite what life insurance industry mortality tables or death-prediction startups might claim. Now, an emerging field of death tech is capitalizing on such anxiety by pitching individual immortality as deepfakes or AI-driven chatbots. Meanwhile, we're facing an ongoing environmental catastrophe perpetrated by colonialism and relentless extraction. These two forms of existential uncertainty may seem separate--but they are intrinsically related.