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When Muscle Memory of Digital Connection Outlives Loss

My grandmother died last month and I keep almost texting her when something funny happens before I remember she's gone.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Technological habits can extend the psychological presence of absence in ways that complicate natural grieving.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Confucian virtue ethics and technology?”

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