Honoring those who cross the digital divide 10/28/07
MyDeathSpace sort of completes the circle of life for some
By ERIK HOGSTROM TH staff writer
You arrive at the story of Matthew Stegman, murdered last year in a Des Moines graveyard. Then there is the story of Jacob Burling, the 21-year-old Upper Iowa University student from Carthage, Ill., who died in a 2005 vehicle accident in Fayette, Iowa. Maggie Kamysz? Her profile is here. The 28-year-old died of a suicide this past August and her tragic story -- she stepped in front of a train after allegedly killing her daughter -- and her archived MySpace.com page are both found on MyDeathSpace.com. Clicking through the links on MyDeathSpace, a Web site spotlighting the deaths of people with MySpace pages, feels like strolling through a virtual cemetery, with links to newspaper obituaries and MySpace profiles serving as cyberspace grave markers. "If people choose to have a digital life, on MySpace or YouTube or Facebook, it is not inconceivable that they, or their friends, should prepare for a digital death presenc...[viewing 931 of 3820 characters]
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