Can you morally justify psychics' services to people in grief?

[Nitlott]

I'm watching a (sort of) documentary on a case that's quite a major one in terms of it's impact on local internet. Won't link/name it, in short a 15y.o. girl committed suicide and before it made a post which blew up shortly after years ago. There were parts of interviews with her mother included, and at one point she talks about psychics and that, whether it's real or not, she believes in it. So, do you think it's morally right/wrong for psychics to offer their services to people in grief?

I believe we can't make a clear yes/no answer on most questions. On one hand, psychics can calm the grieving person down by giving them hope/saying that their missing kid or relative is alive and well somewhere else. But on the other hand doing so they don't allow the grieving person to live through that tragedy. It's all just examples and it depends on the type of person whether they'll be at peace or not... But what about most cases, when they tell the most gruesome details imaginable of how they died? Not necessarily to that person's face. There's a program about this whole "psychic" stuff which has been quite popular for the last 10 years or so that sometimes uses real stories. They invite relatives (mostly it's mothers of the deceased) and have those frauds make up clues or details about the victim to "add realism" for god knows what reasons. They're dancing a jig on those people's bones on live tv. And god knows how many of them do so in real life. No idea if there're such programs on, say, American tv. Probably is.

Spoiler: P.S.

Case that comes to mind that happened relatively lately: without details, there was a woman on tiktok accusing one person of murder despite their stone hard alibi because "the cards told her" or something. It had a good end though, if remember right the accuser lost in court. Think it relates to this topic

The sad part is psychic are the last resort in those situations. First people go to the police and detectives of course. But for the most part they do their job poorly, especially in more remote places. Usually cases either get closed the second there's no big arrow pointing at the killer or they get labelled as suicide (on the topic of unresolved murders here). Second option is a win-win for them, they get a "solved" case and don't bother working on it. So it's no shock that people go to psychics as their last resort to know anything about the case.

Not asking for a clear answer, I want to know what people think about this and their opinions

 

[U. A.]

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[Forever Sleep]

My Nana used to feel she had psychic abilities. She was right over some things but, wrong over others. She didn't do anything like this. More like reading palms for friends- for free. She did go to visit a psychic herself and said they did seem to know things. She even recorded it and, it didn't sound like they were fishing. I was very young at the time though so, I don't entirely remember.

I jusy don't know really. I definitely don't like the idea of them going through gruesome death/ injury details. I've not heard of that before but- that sounds really distressing and- it sounds as if it may not even be accurate.

It definitely doesn't seem right to profit off of someone's grief- either way- if the psychic themselves knows they are a fraud. If they feel like they do have a connection to the spirit world, I don't know really. I suppose if I really felt like I was able to connect to people's deceased loved ones- I think it could be a great comfort to receive a message from them.

I don't know what I truly believe though- to be honest. I do have doubts over whether there even is an afterlife.

 

[wine is fine but]

i saw parts of a john edward show once

i did not believe anything of what he said, but if indeed it was a real audience and not paid stooges, the people he spoke too went away very happy

sometimes, lying or being economical with the truth is not a bad thing - maybe this is one of those times. if he helps people to find an amount of happiness again, then for the most part, that cannot be a bad thing