Update 25.03: Here was my slides from my guest lecture in Århus today. They were online for a week, but since what Im presenting is very much work in progress, they have been withdrawn.

After having talked, thought, and this week also having written, intensely about death in online worlds for a while, a lot of things are starting to fall into place -and everytime I give a talk, people/players in the audience give new input, feedback and suggestions which gives new perspectives to the work. It's really inspiring - so thanks to the Århus crowd (those of you who read this) for being a great audience!

Some quick notes:
Update 25.03: Today I learned that there is apparently "contract killer" guilds in WoW that you can hire to have somebody killed. Need to check that out (it is apparently only a rumour, but great story). And someone pointed out that (with WoW as example) "death" can also be punishment, as when players hunt other players all over the world to kill them. Have to see if I can find any players writing about that.
- And there is the concept of "corpse camping" to kill people on site when they respawn, that I havent looked into at all, but which still takes place, at least in some of the "old" worlds.
- Someone asked if you can beg for mercy and for not to be killed, when in pvp fight in WoW etc (apparently in WoW you do automatically fall to your knees just before you're killed, I just never noticed); it is only when duelling actually, and someone else asked, if it is in some way possible to die "with dignity". I guess not, if you're looking at what options the gamesystem provides, but I guess there must be some "last deaths" of players quitting the game outthere, that could count for that last dignified death? Have to look into that too.
# posted by Lisbeth at: 23:21