Follow the link below to a Washington Post article about how people continue to use the web as a resource for grief support and grief expression. If some people do this on their own and find it helpful, I guarantee many more WANT this kind of expression and do not know how to set it up. Funeral service organizations have an opportunity here. Don't miss it!!!
Grief finds community in online memorials.
Quote from article (very important!!!):
While many non-Western cultures build rituals around death that allow a person to grieve over time, in highly individualistic societies, losing a loved one can be isolating, some psychologists say, which may be why some turn to the Web to reach outside their traditional social network.
"When death happens, we're so alone," said George Bonanno, a psychologist at Columbia University. "It would be nice if we had a sense of community, and maybe that's what the Internet provides."
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