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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobot Mourners at Chiayi Funeral as Taiwan's Population Shrinks
even robots are taking jobs away from paid mourners....
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Robot Mourners at Chiayi Funeral as Taiwan's Population Shrinks (Original Post)
catsudon
Sep 2022
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eppur_se_muova
(37,296 posts)1. OK, this should have been in Weird News. nt
dchill
(40,146 posts)2. This all strikes me as exceptionally odd.
FSogol
(46,260 posts)3. Why? The Tibetians have used flags flapping in the wind to deliver prayers to heaven for
centuries. Same with spinning wheels. In this case, the robots' movement is performing the prayer in lieu of family members.
dchill
(40,146 posts)4. And that's not odd?
FSogol
(46,260 posts)5. I like it better than obnoxious families praying aloud in restaurants. Much of
funeral tradition is about making the survivors feel better. If a pair of robots sending prayers to heaven does that, why not?
dalton99a
(83,913 posts)6. Kick
A man walked by a graveyard and saw a Chinese man leaving food on the grave of his relatives, according to the custom of his family.
"When are your relatives going to come up and eat their food?" the man rudely asked.
"As soon as your relatives come up and smell their flowers," the Chinese man replied.