The Acceptability of Digital Immortality: Today's Human is Tomorrow's Avatar

Technological development now enables digital immortality, especially through post-mortem digital memorials, chatbots and avatars. By managing users' digital legacy, digital lives can be recreated. In this article, we discuss preliminary results from researches about digital immortality, focusing on current discussions in the context of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. We aim at understanding the acceptance of digital immortality among our research participants. The data were collected in a focus group, with participants from different areas. The discussion was fomented by the presentation of video snippets. This qualitative research analyzes these data and proposes research questions in this area.