Interesting website on CNN today - My Death Space
Monday, July 30th, 2007
I was sent an article today about a new website, MyDeathSpace.com, that covers individuals who have passed away and have a myspace account: http://www.cnn.com/…dying.on.the.web.ap/index.html
It is definitely an interesting idea since more and more of peoples’ lives are being lived online. A myspace profile may be the culmination of hundreds of hours of time spent creating a profile, uploading pictures, interacting with friends, and building a network. When someone dies, it is no longer just the people in their local community that are affected; everyone they interact with online feel the loss too.
Coverage of this sort of site points to something we have been seeing for a while now, and that is greater acceptance of death as a part of life in this society. One of our early concerns with the YouDeparted service is that people would be too squeamish to think about their own mortality, regardless of how necessary it is to do so. Interest in our service and articles like the one about MyDeathSpace in CNN point to the fact that people are willing to face the inevitable head-on and even with a bit of humor.
