---
title: AI Delivers the Final Farewell
author: Benedikt Brünner
date: 2026-10-21
url: https://postgenerative.at/indications/2026-10-21/ai-delivers-the-final-farewell
lang: en
type: Indication
summary: Even the final farewell is becoming a use case for generative AI. A Graz-based start-up is developing AI-generated funeral speeches, including an avatar of Vienna's cathedral priest Toni Faber.
tags:
  - Religion
sources:
  - title: "DER STANDARD / APA (20. Oktober 2026): Grazer Start-up produziert KI-Trauerreden mit Dompfarrer Toni Faber"
    url: https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000345125/grazer-start-up-produziert-ki-trauerreden-mit-dompfarrer-toni-faber
  - title: "PostGenerativ.at (9. Oktober 2026): Kirche zieht Grenzen"
    url: https://postgenerativ.at/indizien/2026-10-09/11-kirche-zieht-grenzen
license: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
alternate:
  de: https://postgenerativ.at/indizien/2026-10-21/die-ki-haelt-die-letzte-rede
---

# AI Delivers the Final Farewell

The Graz-based start-up “Lebensstimmen” plans to offer AI-generated video messages for funerals. People will be able to use photos and voice recordings to prepare a personal message for their own funeral while they are still alive. Vienna's cathedral priest Toni Faber is also making a digital likeness of himself available as a selectable speaker. He intends to personally approve every speech delivered by his “Fabertar” avatar; the videos are to be labelled as AI-generated. [1]

The existing PostGenerativ.at entry **“The Church Draws Boundaries”** (*Kirche zieht Grenzen*) reports on Pope Leo XIV warning priests not to have AI write sermons. [2] The current example, by contrast, concerns funeral speeches. It shows that generative AI is increasingly being offered for personal and religious occasions as well.