Via Torill, who posted about the Death Clock, I came across this site:
Find A Death, with a lot of entries on how a number of famous people (primarily American) died. Linked to this site, is a form of companion site: Find a Grave, where you can look for pictures of the grave sites of even more famous people. 41 graves listed for Denmark, including H.C. Andersen, Kierkegaard, Bohr etc.

Find a Death is almost scary in its meticously detailing of everything, down to pictures of the inside of the house where Sharon Tate was killed. What kind of fasciniation is it that leads us to pursue the death of others to the point where people travel around the world to photograph graveyards and murder sites?

The culture of death and the way it is mediated online in western culture is indeed something which calls for study.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 13:55