People need to realize that a memorial service can be held anywhere, a park, a museum, community center, a backyard or a home. The casket does not have to be present. This can save you lots of money on funeral cost.
Snippet from a recent DearAbby:
Dear Abby: My parents passed away within two years of each other. Instead of funerals, we held celebration-of-life services.
We created slide shows and poster boards of their lives, told funny stories about them, and had people share their stories.
What happens to the 1.5 million Folks who will die on Facebook This Year? Their Profiles can live on in Perpetuity if that is what the family chooses.
The most common complaint about the 1.5 million facebook users who will die this year,is a call going out to the living to reconnect with a deceased loved one.
Facebook has one of the more progressive memorial policies. Those who die and who are on Facebook can have their profile live on- It’s up to the family. Twitter recently has made archived tweets as a memorial policy available to Loved ones of the deceased.
One of the biggest trends in online digital death and dying is that obituaries are moving from print to online. In fact if your planning your funeral one should write your obituary and plan for a place to have it placed online. This will continue to happen as the newspaper obituary dies. THE ONLINE OBITUARY CAN HELP YOU SAVE ON FUNERAL COST.
Snippet From the Huffington Post:
“This year, 1.5 million Facebook users will pass away but their Facebook profiles will live on. This is a growing problem and people are naturally asking: can major social media sites handle their dead? The most common complaint is the call to “reconnect” with a deceased loved one. These social networks are for the living and were never built to deal with the dead. Just look how long it took for Facebook to announce a death policy — Twitter just announced theirs last week!
But there’s a larger story here, and an even bigger opportunity. 85% of Americans who die this year are not on Facebook, and with newspapers struggling, the printed obituary’s days are numbered. But they won’t just disappear – they will move online. If the purpose of an obituary is to inform a community about the passing of a loved one, it seems like social media will be much more efficient in doing that. Not to mention all of the sharing tools that could allow people to write an obituary collaboratively”.via www.huffingtonpost.com
The article the Huff Post Comes from the Founder of 1000 memories who has some the best graphics available at there new free obituary site.
Funeral Industry, Funeral Blog By R. Brian Burkhardt, YourFuneral Guy Digital Funeral Director
There is a rise in online obituary sites, and here is a video on one one of the latest FREE online memorial sites. The owners of this site 1000memories.com are negative about the facebook memorial. Not mentioned at all is a free wordpress.com or an almost free wordpress.com memorial blog. The owners plan to bring on paid products to keep their site going.
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In spite of all it’s internet users Facebook cannot tell if your face is dead or alive. They have mastered everything about social networking except digital death and dying. Have you seen a ghost on Facebook?
Everyone from the New York Times to CNET has covered this. Facebook is testing some software that supposedly can determine. whether the owner of a Facebook account is dead or alive!
Some one times someone needs to notify (set up) facebook and delete the account or setup a memorial page. Maybe soon you will be able to send a message from your iphone to your facebook account from the grave. Many folks are being buried with their cell phones these days!
Maybe an iphone casket would work?
Snippet from CNET:
“I used to live in a haunted house. The lady who wandered around it in a white nightdress seemed benign enough. She never deliberately startled me or said “boo” and never made a mess. I think she was simply looking for something or someone she’d left behind. It wasn’t me, as she had died, I believe, somewhere around 1672.
Facebook now has a similar issue to deal with. Around its vastly populated house, there are people who waft away to the next firmament without leaving a note or even saying goodbye. But they’re still there. Out there. Somewhere.
Which is frightfully inconsiderate. It makes Facebook look frightfully inconsiderate too.”
Here is the Full text of the President Obama Eulogy at The Memorial Funeral Service and Celebration of Life for Senator Robert Byrd Given on July 2nd 2010 at the State House In West Virginia.
“It’s a life that immeasurably improved the lives of West Virginians. Of course, Robert Byrd was a deeply religious man, a Christian. And so he understood that our lives are marked by sins as well as virtues, failures as well as success, weakness as well as strength.
We know there are things he said — and things he did — that he came to regret. I remember talking about that the first time I visited with him. He said, “There are things I regretted in my youth. You may know that.” And I said, “None of us are absent some regrets, Senator. That’s why we enjoy and seek the grace of God.”
And as I reflect on the full sweep of his 92 years, it seems to me that his life bent towards justice. Like the Constitution he tucked in his pocket, like our nation itself, Robert Byrd possessed that quintessential American quality, and that is a capacity to change, a capacity to learn, a capacity to listen, a capacity to be made more perfect.
Over his nearly six decades in our Capitol, he came to be seen as the very embodiment of the Senate, chronicling its history in four volumes that he gave to me just as he gave to President Clinton. I, too, read it. I was scared he was going to quiz me. (Laughter.)
But as I soon discovered, his passion for the Senate’s past, his mastery of even its most arcane procedures, it wasn’t an obsession with the trivial or the obscure. It reflected a profoundly noble impulse, a recognition of a basic truth about this country that we are not a nation of men, we are a nation of laws. Our way of life rests on our democratic institutions. Precisely because we are fallible, it falls to each of us to safeguard these institutions, even when it’s inconvenient, and pass on our republic more perfect than before.
Considering the vast learning of this self-taught Senator — his speeches sprinkled with the likes of Cicero and Shakespeare and Jefferson — it seems fitting to close with one of his favorite passages in literature, a passage from Moby Dick:
“And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than any other bird upon the plain, even though they soar.”
Robert Byrd was a mountain eagle, and his lowest swoop was still higher than the other birds upon the plain. (Applause.)
May God bless Robert C. Byrd. May he be welcomed kindly by the righteous Judge. And may his spirit soar forever like a Catskill eagle, high above the Heavens. Thank you very much.”
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