Anyone who has experienced the death of a loved one knows that it is a traumatic experience. That's why Microsoft's new patents for "Deadbots" could be the solution you are looking for in your bereavement.

Deadbots are designed to represent your deceased loved one holographically by leveraging all the digital assets that you can provide - such as social media posts, photos, voice recordings etc. - in order to recreate a representative bot of your loved one that you can interact with at any time.

The possibilities are endless. A Microsoft spokesperson told us:

We are way excited by the potential of our new Deadbots.

Not only can you use unlimited digital assets to help create your Deadbot but you can also send us a sample of your loved one's ashes so we can strart to reconstruct a physical bot in the lab.

So far we have managed to create a dead person's hand - a bit like that one that races around in the Addams Family movie.

It's proven easier to recreate little bits of a person from their ashes.

Which is great if all you want is your dead husband's penis to play with!

If you don't have enough digital assets to create your Deadbot, then we can create it from someone elses' stuff.

For example if your wife just died then we can create a Deadbot of her based on say, Pamela Anderson's assets, to deliver hours of fun!

EU spokesperson Ursula von Richthofen commented:

The EU will be putting tariffs on Deadbots otherwise everyone will want one.