Bitching & Mourning
Season 1
The 5 Stages of Grief EXPOSED
Should ChatGPT be your grief therapist?
Dead People Have Too Much Stuff
In Deepest Sympathy
by Alison Zeidman & Becky Robison
Welcome to Bitching & Mourning, the podcast about grief that got stuck in the "anger" stage of grief and stayed there. Today we're discussing the infamous 5 Stages of Grief. Useful rubric? Crock of shit? Or something in between? Follow Becky: www.deadparentswhatnow.com and @deadparentswhatnow on Instagram and TikTok Follow Alison: @alisonlzeidman on Instagram and @alisonzeidman/WELCOME TO HELL!!! on Substack Molly Robison's music: https://mollyrobsion.bandcamp.com/track/roswell Molly Robison's band Bittersweet Drive: https://bittersweetdrive.bandcamp.com/album/bittersweet-drive-ep
Welcome to Bitching & Mourning, the podcast about grief that will never ask you to write an obituary using chatGPT. Today we’re talking about how AI proponents are encouraging people to use the technology for all kinds of death & grief stuff, from writing obituaries to pretending to be your dead dad in a therapy session. Yikes! Sources for this episode: ‘The Dead Have Never Been This Talkative’: The Rise of AI Resurrection - Time Can Digital Ghosts Help Us Heal? - Scientific American AI Is Now Writing Obituaries—and Business Is (Unfortunately) Good - Vice Digital Grave-Robbing: How AI Is Plundering Online Obituaries - CNET Mother Reportedly Doesn’t Know Her Son Died Because She’s Been Talking to an AI Version of Him - Futurism Family shows AI video of slain victim as an impact statement — possibly a legal first - NPR How to draft a will to avoid becoming an AI ghost—it’s not easy - Ars Technica Follow Becky: www.deadparentswhatnow.com and @deadparentswhatnow on Instagram and TikTok Follow Alison: @alisonlzeidman on Instagram and @alisonzeidman/WELCOME TO HELL!!! on Substack Molly Robison's music: https://mollyrobsion.bandcamp.com/track/roswell Molly Robison's band Bittersweet Drive: https://bittersweetdrive.bandcamp.com/album/bittersweet-drive-ep
Welcome to Bitching & Mourning, the podcast about grief that actively encourages laughing at funerals. Today we’re talking about what to do with all the STUFF dead people leave behind. Alison's dad had a secret boat! Becky's dad had basically a whole freaking arsenal! And so much more. Follow Becky: www.deadparentswhatnow.com and @deadparentswhatnow on Instagram and TikTok Follow Alison: @alisonlzeidman on Instagram and @alisonzeidman/WELCOME TO HELL!!! on Substack Molly Robison's music: https://mollyrobsion.bandcamp.com/track/roswell Molly Robison's band Bittersweet Drive: https://bittersweetdrive.bandcamp.com/album/bittersweet-drive-ep
Welcome to Bitching & Mourning, the podcast about grief that doesn’t feature a somber floral design. Today we’re talking about sympathy cards and why they are so, so bad. Alison and Becky went sympathy card shopping and share their worst finds, then Becky tells us about her very, very academic research into the history. Follow Becky: www.deadparentswhatnow.com and @deadparentswhatnow on Instagram and TikTok Follow Alison: @alisonlzeidman on Instagram and @alisonzeidman/WELCOME TO HELL!!! on Substack Free sympathy cards made by attendees at the 17th Death, Dying & Disposal Conference in Utrecht: https://www.deadparentswhatnow.com/sympathy-cards-free Molly Robison's music: https://mollyrobsion.bandcamp.com/track/roswell Molly Robison's band Bittersweet Drive: https://bittersweetdrive.bandcamp.com/album/bittersweet-drive-ep Sources for sympathy cards info: The New York Times, Hallmark, "Sympathy Cards and Death" by Charles H. Lippy, "Consoling the Bereaved: Exploring How Sympathy Cards Influence What People Say" by Kimberly A. Calderwood and Amy M. Alberton
Becky Robison is a writer who has two dead parents. And Alison Zeidman is a comedian who also has two dead parents! On Bitching & Mourning, Becky and Alison talk about all the shitty things about death and grieving that don’t really get talked about: the pain-in-the-ass logistics, the petty dramas caused by the living, the times when maybe it’s OK to speak ill of the dead…. Basically, it's a place to air grief grievances. And if you love someone who’s dead and have ever had to deal with the realities of grieving or handling post-death logistics in modern-day America, then this is the podcast for you. Coming June 21st (Father's Day!)