Robot Mourners at Chiayi Funeral as Taiwan's Population Shrinks

[catsudon]

even robots are taking jobs away from paid mourners....

[eppur_se_muova]

1. OK, this should have been in Weird News. nt

[dchill]

2. This all strikes me as exceptionally odd.

[FSogol]

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]

4. And that's not odd?

[FSogol]

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]

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.