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For some facebook is a continual Open Casket, a way to communicate with the dead long after they are gone. This has special appeal  for the generation that grew up on My Space  and continues their life on Facebook.

A Facebook Profile can be a perpetual memorial.

...a search ofFacebook groups titled In Memory of
turned up more than 55,000 results, and a search for
Rest in Peace turned up more than 14,000.

Facebook is a great place for online memorials

For the generation that spent high school on MySpace andcollege on Facebook, its only natural to seek out the Web in times of need.

When Northwestern freshman Trevor Boehm died in November 2008, friends and family members flocked to a common gathering spot to mourn together and share their disbelief: Facebook. It was all many of them could do, since his three older sisters were back home in Monument, Colo., and high school friends were away at colleges all over the United States.  Initially reported missing by his parents when they arrived for Parents’ Weekend and couldn’t locate him, 20-year-old Boehm’s body was found several days later in Lake Michigan near Chicago’s Montrose harbor. News of a candlelight vigil and two funerals, one at Northwestern and one at home, were spread through the “Rest in Peace Trevor Jon Boehm” memorial group on Facebook.

Many friends posted photos in the group or wrote messages on his personal page, expressing their grief and saying how much they would miss him. But more than a year after his death, Trevor Boehm’s Facebook friends are still writing to him, updating him on Nip/Tuck episodes he’s missed and Thai dinners he couldn’t attend. “Writing on his Facebook gives me a way to communicate with him because I feel like somehow he knows what’s being written,” says Ali Boehm, his older sister. “I go on there whenever I have a memory or thought of him. It’s a good outlet for just proactively communicating with him.”

A Facebook  Profile can be a perpetual “OPEN CASKET”
As Facebook and other social networking Web sites become more important to human interaction, these technologies are changing the way people cope with loss.
In a world where our digital lives are as real those offline, a person’s Facebook profile postmortem is a virtual open casket. -via www.dailynorthwestern.com

For those who choose to ignore the Facebook Memoralization Option, and do not close the deceased’s account FACEBOOK BECOMES AN ALMOST PERPETUAL MEMORIAL.

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Tuesday, February 9th, 2010
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A Facebook Memorial has run into some legal trouble in Canada. Apparently the popularity of the memorial on facebook for a two year old murdered boy may pollute a jury pool, violate a  court order and a publication ban.

FACEBOOK HAS RUN INTO SOME TROUBLE WITH A FUNERAL MEMORIAL.

As a grief-stricken family prepared the funeral for a two-year-old Oshawa boy slain in a basement apartment, thousands of people turned to Facebook to memorialize the child.

But as mourners — some family, some friends, even complete strangers — post condolences, photos and apparent theories of how the toddler was killed, they could be breaking a court-ordered publication ban.

Neither the victim nor the accused, the mother’s 26-year-old boyfriend, can be publicly identified.via www.metronews.ca

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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
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The Hollywood Starlet Brittany Murphy funeral arrangement has been made. The Funeral will be on Christmas Eve at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills California.

It is not clear whether there will be video or photos available.

There is no word as to whether the press will be given access to the Funeral.

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Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
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Here are a video and pictures from Washington State’s  Lakewood Police Officers slain for no other reasons than that they were Police officers. This kind of support is needed given the nature of the crime.

This was probably the Largest Memorial Service and Funeral Procession in the State of Washingtons history.

The four officers were slain while having coffee in a resturant.

Lakewood Officers4170503290_75f1df26fd(2)4170514914_e50fe64daa_bThe motorcade went 10 miles and took 3 an one half hours. 20,000 Officers participated from around the USA and

CANADA:

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Canadian Mounties

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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
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If someone dies you can have them memoralized on Facebook

If someone dies you can have them memoralized on Facebook and still connect.

On Monday Facebook gave some perspective on  profile memoralization procedures.  We have addressed this before. This appeared on the Official Facebook Blog:

“We understand how difficult it can be for people to be reminded of those who are no longer with them, which is why it’s important when someone passes away that their friends or family contact Facebook to request that a profile be memorialized. For instance, just last week, we introduced new types of Suggestions that appear on the right-hand side of the home page and remind people to take actions with friends who need help on Facebook. By memorializing the account of someone who has passed away, people will no longer see that person appear in their Suggestions.

When an account is memorialized, we also set privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search. We try to protect the deceased’s privacy by removing sensitive information such as contact information and status updates. Memorializing an account also prevents anyone from logging into it in the future, while still enabling friends and family to leave posts on the profile Wall in remembrance.

If you have a friend or a family member whose profile should be memorialized, please contact us, so their memory can properly live on among their friends on Facebook.”-Max Kelley-via blog.facebook.com

The Facebook Contact form is below.

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For a step by step approach go here.

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IMPORTANT: This form is solely for the reporting of a deceased person to memorialize the person’s account. Memorializing the account removes certain sensitive information and sets privacy so that only confirmed friends can see the profile or locate it in search. The Wall remains so that friends and family can leave posts in remembrance. Please note that unrelated inquiries through this form may not receive a response.

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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
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