Online memorial

As virtual cemeteries (also "Internet graveyard ," "Network cemetery " or " Online Memorial " ) are usually referred to sites where for the dead one or several memorial pages can be created. With these pages, family members and friends, but also strangers can witness their condolences. Virtual cemeteries there are both for people and for pets. The first virtual cemeteries there were in the early 1990s. The emergence and dissemination was done mostly by American websites.

Benefits of virtual memorial pages

Benefits of Virtual cemeteries are a global accessibility of the memorial pages and the individual design at relatively low cost. One such website is not only briefly visible, like a death notice in a local newspaper, but permanently available. There is also the possibility for a Trauerort with burial in the "green field " without personal tomb. Virtual cemeteries offer the possibility to create your own memorial page for the deceased in the rule. This page is frequently referred to as " online grave " means. On the memorial site texts and images may be published, the call to posterity the deceased in memory. Often virtual memorial candles can be lit. Also, the creation of family trees is possible in some virtual cemeteries.

Disadvantages of virtual cemeteries

The use of a virtual cemetery can be a help in coping with the grief, but the farewell acquisition at the grave of the deceased not replace it. A significant disadvantage of such memorial sites is that there may be violating entries in unmoderated Kondolenzlisten, the additional burden on the family. Stay condolences over the years made ​​and are not checked on a regular basis, the likelihood of unwanted items increases.