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Asia Insight
Season 15 · Episode 21
Never-ending Goodbyes: Griefbots on the Rise in China
0.028mOctober 2, 2026
Griefbots, AI-generated avatars of the deceased, are increasingly used in China to provide relief to families from the pain of loss. Three families describe their reactions to the experience.
Episodes
- Episode 1Myanmar People Surviving in a Chinese Border City
- Episode 2Searching for Vietnam's Lost Families
- Episode 3The Giant Project Changing Hong Kong
- Episode 4The Online Casino Crisis in the Philippines
- Episode 5A New Passion for Pets: Thailand
- Episode 6The Unmarriageable Men: Woes in China's Farming Villages
- Episode 7"Haenyeo" Women of the Sea: Saving Tradition in South Korea
- Episode 8Migration for Education: Chinese Families Rush to Thailand
- Episode 9A New Stage for Taiwanese Puppetry
- Episode 10Defecting to Democracy: Myanmar
- Episode 11Fighting for Democracy: Young Voters in Bangladesh
- Episode 12Leading My Own Life with a Disability: Mongolia
- Episode 13Survivors Battling Leprosy: Indonesia
- Episode 14China's Aspiring AI Entrepreneurs
- Episode 15Himalayan Cheese to the World: Nepal
- Episode 16Thailand's Coconut Wars
- Episode 17China's Rising Private Space Industry
- Episode 18India’s Cooking Fuel Crisis
- Episode 19The Garbage Landslide: A Wake-up Call for the Philippines
- Episode 20Lebanon: Divided by Conflict
- Episode 21Never-ending Goodbyes: Griefbots on the Rise in China