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Death Online
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With the significant adoption of the online world by people, there are an increasing number of people open to using the internet as a way to grieve and remember loved ones after death. There are over 20 websites dedicated to providing online memorials
Digital Death
There are social, cultural and practical implications of death in the Digital World, thus stimulating a reconsideration of how death, mourning, memories and history are currently being augmented in our technologically mediated society. The archiving, networking and post mortem engagement of ‘digital remains’ leads us to consider what place digital information has in our lives legally, sentimentally and historically.
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Facebook
Facebook has been used as a social grieving space for several years already. Profiles of the deceased are routinely transformed into online memorials. But the memorialisation process locks the profile and disables the ability to add new “friends.”
As a result we have seen the creation of memorial “pages” on Facebook. A simple search for “R.I.P” on Facebook shows that people are creating these pages so anyone can participate.
Dedicated online memorial websites go a step further than Facebook. They create a place whose declared purpose is to connect with others and grieve socially. This eliminates the confusion that people experience when encountering death in a vibrantly social place like Facebook.
Online Memorial
An online memorial consists of tribute pages hosted on special websites, set up so that families can remember lost loved ones. This can be simply a one-page web document giving the name of the deceased and a few words of tribute, through to a fully functioning memorial site designed to celebrate, commemorate and remember someone's life in its entirety.
Content typically includes multiple photos in a gallery or slideshow plus chosen music and videos uploaded along with memories and stories from friends and family. A common feature is the acceptance of thoughts or candles, often by visiting strangers to the memorial offering their condolences and support to the grieving party. There can be a timeline which charts the person's life and a family tree to display their links with ancestors and descendants. There may even be a blog or journal which provides a record of emotions and feelings felt during the period of bereavement.
Online Healing
An online memorial is now widely accepted as an integral part of the grieving process , and the underlying basis for this is the way in which it can bring those affected by a death closer together by encouraging communication and expression. It is normally one of the tools for bereaved people to communicate with each other and to act as a bridge with others.
An additional benefit is that it can prolong the grieving communication process. It is very easy to all feel compelled to 'stop talking about it' once the funeral has taken place when successful grieving normally requires a much longer period of active remembering. An online memorial where friends and family can all tell their stories and express their feelings of loss over the medium term can help everyone manage their grief effectively together.
Funerals
How your funeral is arranged will depend on your faith ( or lack of faith ) .
The traditional types of funerals will be familiar to most people. We set out on this page some types of funerals and burials
Any directions you set out in your will for your funeral will not be binding. However where possible it is likely that your wishes would be observedFunerals
A funeral is a ceremony for celebrating, sanctifying, or remembering the life of a person who has died. Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from interment itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honor.These customs vary widely between cultures, and between religious affiliations within cultures. The word funeral comes from the Latin funus, which had a variety of meanings, including the corpse and the funerary rites themselves. Funerary art is art produced in connection with burials, including many kinds of tombs, and objects specially made for burial with a corpse.
Green Funeral
Those with concerns about the effects on the environment of traditional burial or cremation may choose to be buried in a fashion more suited to their beliefs. They may choose to be buried in an all natural bio-degradable green burial shroud, sometimes a simple coffin made of cardboard or other easily-biodegradable material. Further, they may choose their final resting place to be in a park or woodland, known as an eco-cemetery, and may have a tree planted over their grave as a contribution to the environment and a remembrance. Here is am image of a funeral coffin made of willow
How your funeral is arranged will depend on your faith ( or lack of faith ) .
The traditional types of funerals will be familiar to most people. We set out on this page some types of funerals and burials
New Orleans
A unique funeral tradition in the United States occurs in New Orleans, Louisiana. The tradition arose from a combination of African spiritual practices, French musical traditions, and African-American cultural influences. A typical jazz funeral begins with a march by the family, friends, and a jazz band, starting from the home, funeral home, or church, and proceeding to the cemetery.
Throughout the march, the band plays very somber dirges.
Once the final ceremony has taken place, the march proceeds from the cemetery to a gathering place, and the solemn music is replaced by loud, upbeat, raucous music and dancing where onlookers join in to celebrate the life of the deceased.
This is the origin of the New Orleans dance known as the "second line" where celebrants do a dance-march, frequently while raising the hats and umbrellas brought along as protection from intense New Orleans weather and waving handkerchiefs above the head as they are no longer being used to wipe away tears.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal