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Archive for August, 2010
St. Joseph Abbey’s Monks Battle State Funeral Industry Regulators for Right to Sell Caskets Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Times-Picayune (August 13, 2010) Monks Fight for Right to Sell Caskets Locally Debbie Glover, St. Tammany News (August 15, 2010) One of the lesser-known classic blunders is trying to prevent jovial Benedictine monks, living peacefully in their [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Economy|Death + the Law|Funeral Industry
- Tags: coffins, funeral homes, video
Social Networking’s Sudden Morbidity and Mortality
16, Aug 2010Twitter. And Facebook. And death. Future Tense with John Moe, American Public Media (August 16, 2010) Just recently, Twitter announced new guidelines on what it will do when a user dies. Twitter now joins the ranks of Facebook and Myspace in coming up with policies for dead members. We here at Death Ref have been [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Technology|Death + the Web|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Facebook, memorializing, twitter
1000Memories, a Thousand Possibilities
13, Aug 2010Despite the option of putting a deceased Facebook user’s account into memorial mode (and necessity, to avoid suggestions to “reconnect”), Facebook is for the living. That’s okay. Social media sites weren’t intended to handle death, and only years after their inceptions recognized the dilemma and developed related policies, as Kim’s last post explains. But now [...]
- By: Meg Holle
- In: Death + the Web|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: memorializing, online memorials
Dead Netizen
12, Aug 2010There’s been much talk of late about what happens to your online social connections, not to mention your email and all the other ways you exist virtually, after you die. With Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others there’s you and then there’s virtual you. As more and more people join the virtual you ranks, the implementation [...]
- By: Kim
- In: Death + the Law|Death + the Web|Death Ethics|Monuments + Memorials
- Tags: Facebook, twitter
When Medical Treatment is Worse than Death
10, Aug 2010Letting Go What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? Atul Gawande, The New Yorker (August 2, 2010) Dr. Atul Gawande: Make End Of Life More Humane Terry Gross, Fresh Air on WHHY (July 29, 2010) A few weeks ago, Dr. Atul Gawande wrote a good piece on End of Life decision making [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: assisted dying, bioethics, death with dignity