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In other words, upload their conscious to the internet? If you can figure out how, I'm game.



There's a TV series (Caprica) based around that...


No, I don't mean that.


I personally feel anything that's not THEM, or at least them to some arbitrary precision, would simply serve as an always-there in-your-face reminder that the person is gone.

If they were actually living on in the internet- not necessarily perfectly, but enough to get people to buy it- that would help assuage grief, but we have no idea how to do that yet.




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