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Comment by EvanAnderson | Hacker News Reader

Since I feel powerless to stop it I wonder if I should shift my portfolio to the funeral industry and try to profit from it.

I'm only kind of joking.

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From the front page of Bloomberg today

> "Disaster Spending Has Become an $8 Trillion Engine for US Growth"

Hello Tech Crunch, we'd like to present our coffin made out of recyclable cardboard, buy it in bulk for your whole family for a discount

For TechCrunch you need to latch onto at least a few trends.

For example: Medium Memories is introducing an AI-enabled coffin personalized to the relationship between you and your late-loved one. Medium provides you an always-on cloud-connected camera to ensure you won’t have to lose sight of those who matter to you. Medium Plans start at $2.99/mo for 60 minutes of AI-enabled talk time a month. Here’s our interview with founder Bamuel Saltman.

And for just $25.99/month, you may access our premium offering - Medium Resurrect. Compatible with only our top offering, the fully sealed, biologically preserving LifeCoffin Ultimate (only from $9,999), instead of using a generic model, we will let you upload the data, messages and videos of the deceased. Then, we will finetune your own personalized LLM, and using cutting-edge voice transfer and video generation technology, we'll superimpose your loved one's talking, smiling face onto the live feed from your LifeCoffin Ultimate. Giving you closure and a moment of reflective peace, Medium will empower you to speak to your love one more time.

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