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Virtual Afterlives - Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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Virtual Afterlives - Grieving the Dead in the Twenty-First Century (Paperback)
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For millennia, the rituals of death and remembrance have been fixed
by time and location, but in the twenty-first century, grieving has
become a virtual phenomenon. Today, the dead live on through social
media profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that can be
accessed at any time. This dramatic cultural shift has made the
physical presence of death secondary to the psychological
experience of mourning. Virtual Afterlives investigates emerging
popular bereavement traditions. Author Candi K. Cann examines new
forms of grieving and evaluates how religion and the funeral
industry have both contributed to mourning rituals despite their
limited ability to remedy grief. As grieving traditions and
locations shift, people are discovering new ways to memorialize
their loved ones. Bodiless and spontaneous memorials like those at
the sites of the shootings in Aurora and Newtown and the Boston
Marathon bombing, as well as roadside memorials, car decals, and
tattoos are contributing to a new bereavement language that crosses
national boundaries and culture-specific perceptions of death.
Examining mourning practices in the United States in comparison to
the broader background of practices in Asia and Latin America,
Virtual Afterlives seeks to resituate death as a part of life and
mourning as a unifying process that helps to create identities and
narratives for communities. As technology changes the ways in which
we experience death, this engaging study explores the culture of
bereavement and the ways in which it, too, is being significantly
transformed.
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