Would you upload your loved one if you could?
This light sci-fi drama from Greg Daniels asks a question many grief survivors have quietly wondered: if you could upload someone you lost—talk to them, see them, not lose them entirely—would you?
Upload is more than a tech satire. It’s a story about memory, love, and grief wrapped in comedy and code. And for many, it’s oddly healing.
Grief, Digitized
When Nora uploads Nathan’s consciousness to Lakeview, it sets off a complicated grief story disguised as a romance. We get to witness Nathan’s confusion, denial, jealousy—and Nora’s exhaustion, longing, and guilt. It’s a relationship defined by what can never be fully real again.
And in that liminal space—half real, half digital—is where the grief lives.
Because grief doesn’t wait for a season.
It finds you in the social media,on the password reset.
The Healing Calendar offers steady support between the big anniversaries—because life keeps going, and you still need care.
The Grief of Not Knowing
“I started watching Upload a few months after Doug’s memorial. At the time, I kept searching—wondering where he might be now, what happens after death, and if there was any way to still feel close to him. The show became a strange kind of refuge—part escape, part imagined answer.
It gave me hope that maybe memories could still be held onto, that conversations didn’t have to end just because someone was gone.
Back then, I coped in fragments—short bursts of binge-watching between trying to work and grieving in quiet moments I didn’t know how to name. I found myself drawn to grief-centered sci-fi and supernatural stories, hoping that somewhere, somehow, technology might have caught up to the ache of loss.
Upload gave me something to hold onto when I didn’t know how to hold myself.”
— Edvin, founder of And We Thrive
Calendar Reflection
When someone we love dies, there’s a double grieving: the person, and the uncertainty.
Some days, it isn’t just that they’re gone.
It’s where are they now?
Are they okay? Are they near?
Do they know we’re still trying?
This week, let yourself name the unspoken questions. Let it be okay not to have the answers.
Like in Upload, the Healing Calendar imagines a future where connection and care still find us. One page a day can help keep that future within reach.
