What is this technology? Does this thing even exist?

My friend recently turned me on to this Channel 4 series called The Black Mirror and I really like it. It’s kind of a Twilight Zone-esque show that deals with possible future technologies and their potential consequences.

One episode follows a woman whose boyfriend dies and she decides to deal with her grief by using an app that recreates him digitally using his social media footprint and voice recordings of him to make her feel like she’s having a real conversation with the deceased. Eventually, she decides to order a fully-formed, adult clone of him who has been programmed with his physical characteristics and mannerisms. Needless to say, it has some interesting consequences.

Anyway, my friend also mentioned that there is a real technology out now that allows people to work through their grief by using the social media footprint of the dead. This one sounds a little healthier and more realistic—it taps into all the places you have ever “checked in” on social media with the person and creates a “memory map”. They then send you a pattern to stitch a memory quilt of sorts to commemorate all of the fun things you did together, which sounds like it could be a nice and productive activity to help heal grieving people.

Has anyone ever heard of this? What do you think? Cool or weird?