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Are Grave QR Codes The Next Big Thing? Personhood. Miscarriage News & celebrities. 404 Error. Our mourning rituals are being adapted to -- and evolving because of -- our strangely persistent online personas. In this interview, a philosopher tries to make sense of death on the Internet. Think of how rich and deeply personal your online persona has become. Now think of what will happen to it when you die. Until very recently, this question used to feel unusual or irrelevant for all but a tiny, ultrawired slice of the population. In a New York Times Magazine feature about online death last year, Rob Walker noted, "For most of us, the fate of tweets and status updates and the like may seem trivial.

" Already, the service allows grieving loved ones to "memorialize" user profiles. But what does that really mean? This is a strange and fascinating moment as we develop new rituals for the dead's social media profiles. You open your paper by noting that there is this increasing intersection of online life and offline death. Stokes: Oh there are plenty of them. Right, but that's now. Rhonda's Little Angels - Home Page. Passing On The Miscarriage Grief - There is NO Cookie Cutter for Motherhood - What To Expect Blogs. Memorial for an Ectopic Pregnancy - VirusHead. Our Story: Ectopic Pregnancy Loss and Musings on Mythology John and I were expecting our second child to be born on September 11, 2002. Since my first pregnancy had been normal, I was not scheduled to go to my first appointment until I was more than 8 weeks along.

But the Sunday before the appointment, something went wrong. On February 3rd, 2002, I lost the baby, and nearly lost my life. I am told by my surgeon that I got to the hospital just in the nick of time - an hour later, and I might have died. I don't know whether the baby would have been a boy or a girl. Visit the Pregnancy Loss Memorial Quilt Joseph Campbell: "Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestations. " I do know that there was no way to save this baby. A very tiny little snowbird represents our baby's guardian spirit.

Honored Babies ~ Miscarriage, Stillbirth, Ectopic Pregnancy, Pregnancy Termination, Neonatal Death, Infant Death. My Miscarriage: A Memorial For Haven. My Miscarriage Part 1. My Miscarriage Memorial video. Bethany’s baby - Jill Stanek. I received the following note and photos this morning. They are self-explanatory. Dear Jill, The reason I’m emailing is because a little over two weeks ago I experienced a miscarriage. It was very difficult to deal with, as I was so excited about having a fourth child and had no idea anything was wrong until the day I had the routine ultrasound, and the doctors told me that the baby had died in my womb. I had to wait a week to miscarry the baby, and it was so difficult. Once the baby came, I took several pictures of the baby, who was around six weeks old when he or she died. But I want to share the pictures with you, because you may be able to do something with them to help the pro-life cause.

Bethany View my blog (usually updated daily): View my pencil drawings and wall murals: P.S. The Face Of Single Payer (Wizbang) I've been sitting on this story for some time, just trying to find a way to write about it without completely losing it. And I think I finally can. In England, a woman was having a very difficult pregnancy. She ended up going into labor 21 weeks and five days after conception. The record for a suriving baby is 21 weeks and six days. And it still is. The fetus did not survive.

Oh, it was born alive. Fortunately for Sarah Capewell, she was under the care of Britain's universal health coverage system. Under the current US system, the doctors would not have denied her medicines to delay her labor or strengthen her fetus. Had her insurance company balked at picking up the tab, the hospital would have continued to provide it and worried about the bill later. The news media would have gone ape over the story. And even if all that didn't happen, Ms. But luckily for her, she's in England. Why did the hospital refuse to care for the fetus? But in England, it's different. Child miscarriage support and child death support website. The grief of child loss.

Green Taxi » 6 Remarks on our Facebook Memorial Page Experience. By Conor on 09.14.09 I gave GreenTaxi over a week of silence in honor of my mother’s passing. With this time, I wanted to A) spend my time on higher priority personal matters and B) let the last blog post announcement sit as a main post for a bit of time to make sure all of her friends and family got the news. As a quick recap, we set up a Facebook page for her shortly after her passing. The purpose was to help spread the news, to share photos, stories, and updates for the service, and to provide something for people to visit in the future to read up about my mother. Some thoughts from this experience. Facebook does not have an category for memorial events.

It is interesting to see how waves of groups of people find the page. It frustrates me that only an admin can upload an album of photos, even if the ability to post photos is open to the public. Pages are still very misunderstood, even among active Facebook users. Facebook urged to act after memorial sites defaced.

Facebook moves to protect memorial pages from offensive 'trolling' Natasha MacBryde suicide: Vile web craze taunted family of bullied girl after her death. By Beth Hale Updated: 14:10 GMT, 26 February 2011 As incomprehension turned to grief in the aftermath of his teenage son Tom’s suicide, Robert Mullaney was able to draw some small comfort from the messages of sympathy posted on an online memorial page. It was only two days earlier that 15-year-old Tom had been looking forward to a family holiday, and had just become the proud owner of a season ticket for his beloved Birmingham City.

So the youngster’s sudden disappearance from the family home in Bournville was mystifying, giving rise to a sleepless night for his worried parents Robert and Tracy, who hoped their son had decided to stay over at a friend’s. Tragic: Natasha MacBryde died under a train on Valentine's Day. The grief of family was made worse by sick 'trolls' In anguish and disbelief, Robert returned to the house to break the devastating news to his wife. Of course, no parent should ever have to bear the agony of such untimely loss. ‘I was horrified,’ says Robert, 48.

Facebook axes crash victim's memorial page. Agouveia@capecodonline.com February 25, 2010 BUZZARDS BAY — Nothing can erase the pain of losing a child in a hit-and-run accident. But Andrew Dexter Sr. said reading the outpouring of love and support on his son's Facebook memorial page helped him cope with the death. That was until last week, when the memorial page for 17-year-old Andrew Dexter Jr. suddenly vanished.

Facebook, a popular social networking Web site, eliminated the group "R.I.P. Facebook officials did not return an e-mail seeking further comment yesterday, but the company's terms of use do not permit groups that advertise a product, or attack or harass an individual or group, according to Facebook's Web site. Dexter said his son's memorial page had 1,800 members when it was taken offline and more than a month's worth of pictures and remembrances are now gone. "I was disgusted that Facebook would take down a memorial page for my son," Dexter said when reached by phone yesterday.

Growing resentment New Facebook page. Students Horrified At Facebook Memorial Page - NW Arkansas News Story. FORT SMITH, Ark. —Students at Southside High School in Fort Smith contacted 40/29 News after discovering the administrator of a Facebook page meant to honor their classmate, Travis McAfee, who died after a car accident on Christmas Eve, had posted graphic and disturbing images on the page. The page is called "In Loving Memory of Travis McAfee," and more than 700 people had "liked" the Facebook page before the offensive material was posted to it. Brenton, a friend of Travis, said, "I was seeing pictures of Travis. They were posting comments on him, making fun of him and making light of the situation of his death. Some of them were pornographic and others was just outrage.

The administrator of the page had been actively responding to the posts made by fans of the page. The man in the video, wearing sunglasses and a hat, called himself the administrator of the page and said, "When I first heard that Travis passed away, I just couldn't stop help but laughing. Student Jessica agreed.. Facebook Memorial Sites Taking Hold. People in front of the gate at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz, in the city of Oswiecim, Poland, on Thursday, May 5, 2005, just before the 18th annual March of the Living that honors some 1 million of the camp's Jewish victims who died in the Holocaust. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski) AP Henio Zytomirski's Facebook profile picture stands out from most. The grinning 6-year-old is captured in black and white and poses in an old-fashioned buttoned-up shirt and shorts. The photograph, shot in 1939, is probably the last taken of him before he was murdered in the Holocaust. A group in the boy's hometown of Lublin is using the social networking site to breathe virtual life into Henio's stolen childhood and give people around the world the chance to get to know him - as well as mourn the millions of others killed by Nazi Germany.

"Henio was an eyewitness and a victim to the Nazis' actions. The caption in Polish reads: "It will be September soon. The Official Rue McClanahan Memorial Page. Memorial Pages. Cherish, tribute & honor your loved ones with a memorial site. Online Memorials | Free Memorial Websites at ForeverMissed.com. Facebook Introduces New “Memories” Feature - TNW Apps. 16 December '10, 11:20pm Follow It appears that Facebook has pulled the updates, for now.

This was apparently a mistake on the part of someone at Facebook. Please see our post explaining the details. For a split second, we saw a new feature on our Facebook profiles. It was on the right hand side under “Photos” titled, “Memories.” After I clicked, it showed options for jumping to photos grouped by years: 2010, 2009, 2008, etc. with complementing information like status dated status updates, the number of friends added per year, events attended and Facebook places check-ins.

We’ve literally been dumping this information into Facebook as if it were a landfill for the past 6 years. Here is a screen shot of what the feature’s toolbar looks like: Big thanks to @patrozoo. SCOTT MCQUAID FINDLEY MEMORIAL PAGE. Obit Research » Facebook memorial or group page? Facebook Death Policy: How To Delete and Memorialize Facebook Accounts. You have three options to choose between when you’re deciding what you’d like to happen to your Facebook profile after you’ve passed away: Memorial Status, Delete Account, Do Nothing. There are pros and cons to all three approaches and it is up to you to decide what is best for you. Check out our blog post for more information about each option. We’ve created this page to help you make a decision and then provide help to your Digital Executor, the person who you’ve tasked with carrying out your wishes after you pass away. How To Memorialize a Facebook Profile 1. Go to – 2. 3. How To Delete a Facebook Account If you have the login and password credentials 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

As Older Users Join Facebook, Network Grapples With Death. Hi, I'm Simon Thulbourn and I'm not dead! Updated There's a been a lot of visitors to this page, I should probably update it since the original page wasn't particularly well written because it was written in a rush at 1AM. Earlier this week, social media sites had found that Facebook has a page dedicated to memorialising people's profiles once they've croaked it (as seen on BoingBoing) or for when someone's friends want to play a joke on someone. I may have made a slight mistake by posting this special "I want to make people dead" page to my Facebook wall. My "friend" Johnny sees the page and decides it would be an excellent idea to register me as dead with Facebook.

It turns out, it's remarkably easy to register people as dead with Facebook, you need very little information and the person who you're killing off doesn't need to confirm that they aren't dead, all you need is: Name Networks (not even all of them) Date of birth Their email address A URL of an obituary that no one will bother to read (we'll come back to this) What Happens to Your Facebook Profile When You Die? In an Oct. 26 blog post, Max Kelly, Facebook's head of security, announced the company's policy of "memorializing" profiles of users who have died, taking them out of the public search results, sealing them from any future log-in attempts and leaving the wall open for family and friends to pay their respects.

Though most media reports claimed this was a new Facebook feature, a spokeswoman for the company told TIME that it's an option the site has had since its early days. The company decided to publicize the policy because of a backlash caused by a new version of the site's homepage that was rolled out on Oct. 23, which includes automatically generated "suggestions" of people to "reconnect" with.

Within days of the launch, Twitter users and bloggers from across the Web complained that some of these suggestions were for friends who had died. "Would that I could," complained a user on Twitter before ending her tweet with the hash tag #MassiveFacebookFail. Grieving a Miscarriage. Pregnancy (Illustration by Barry Falls) In the comments here last week, several of you asked about miscarriage: Why won’t people stop saying “you can try again soon”? What is the “right” amount of grief? Are there more miscarriages now or does it just seem that way? What to tell the children about the baby who will not be? I put these questions and others to Donnica Moore, an Ob/Gyn who is founder of the Sapphire Women’s Group and editor of the newly released book, “Women’s Health for Life.”

(I am also using this post to put these questions to readers, so please add your thoughts and advice below.) No data exists to tell us whether miscarriages are becoming more common, Moore says. What is certainly true, she believes, is that today more women know they are having a miscarriage. In addition, tools such as ovulation predictors and more extensive reproductive interventions mean many know the exact moment of conception. Facebook "Memorial" Profiles Could Make Research For Journalists Harder. With 'memorialized' profiles, Facebook sees dead people | The Social. With over 300 million active users around the world, it's a legitimate concern for social network Facebook to come up with a solution for what happens when members die.

The company has now spelled out the process on its official blog (in a post that's a little bit awkwardly close to Halloween, considering the sensitivity of the subject matter). Facebook's Max Kelly explains in the blog post: "Obviously, we wanted to be able to model people's relationships on Facebook, but how do you deal with an interaction with someone who is no longer able to log on? When someone leaves us, they don't leave our memories or our social network. To reflect that reality, we created the idea of 'memorialized' profiles as a place where people can save and share their memories of those who've passed.

" But for those who were confirmed friends of the deceased, they can continue to leave "wall" posts in remembrance. Virtual Memorials. Crisis, Grief, and Healing Tom Golden LCSW. Template.cfm (application/pdf Object) Memories of Friends Departed Endure on Facebook. !!! Angal Love - My Angel !!! The Virtual Memorial Garden.