Could Funerals Become Movie Highlights of Someone's Life?

This is the concept behind the 2004, movie "The Final Cut" the movie is science fiction, but could it become a reality. The concept of placing chips in the brain is something that has been discussed for multiple reasons. Certainly that is something that could happen. In the movie a computer chip is placed in a person's brain at birth for a high cost. Due to the high cost this is something that is reserved for the rich. Anyway the chip will record with both sound and vision every event of that person's life. In a way it's like the ultimate big brother although the footage can't be viewed in a safe way until the person dies. When someone does die the chip is removed and using a computer editing process is condensed to highlights of that person's life. In order to determine which parts to use family members are interviewed.

As the movie shows if this technology was available it would create all kinds of problems. Such as, how to edit someone's life, the tendency is to portray everyone as a saint. Generally I am of the opinion that someone should be portrayed in the way they spent most of their life doing. For instance does the serial killer deserve to be remembered as a saint and does the man who abused his children deserve to have this edited out. These are all questions posed to the editor.

The movie suggests that the person should be made aware of their chip on their 21^st birthday. Another question is how would someone live their life if they knew any part of it can be shown at their funeral. The positive is that funerals really will be celebrations of life. The biggest problem I see is that the editing invariably would not be accurate and wouldn't show the kind of image that someone may remember. Though I see how this possible technology would take a lot of mystery of life away and even mystery of how people die.

Honestly though if this technology was available I don't think I would want it. Certain things in our life we have the right to keep private forever. Also there may be an increase in crime to unearth information. For instance murders to find out what's on someone's chip. Overall it's an interesting movie with real food for thought. The movie is called "The Final Cut" and stars Robin Williams.