I continue to look at death online as part of my ongoing research project on character death in online worlds. People have started to send me links - and if you know of any examples similar to those listed here, let me know!

Via the air-list
Description of a funeral in World of Warcraft for real-life player

And via Patrik, a link to the Infocult blog, whose author, amongst other things, maintains a "cybergothic" category. Recent entry "Death in the Blogoshpere" includes a link to a MySpace website listing all the Myspace profiles/bloggers who have died in real life. It's really sad reading, most are young people who have died in car accidents, from drunk driving, gunshots or suicide. Almost devastating, the young guy who on his blog - shortly before he committed suicide - told people to call the police so they could come find his body.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 23:44