“The social norms for loss and the Internet are clearly still evolving. But Gen Y-ers and millennials have begun projecting their own sensibilities onto rituals and discussions surrounding death. As befits the first generation of digital natives, they are starting blogs, YouTube series and Instagram feeds about grief, loss and even the macabre, bringing the conversation about bereavement and the deceased into a very public forum, sometimes with jarring results.” NY Times, “An Online Generation Redefines Mourning” (March 14, 2014)
Modern Loss: : Modern Loss is a place to share the unspeakably taboo,
unbelievably hilarious, and unexpectedly beautiful terrain of navigating your
life after a death. Beginners welcome.
This
project grew out of two friends’ separate experiences with sudden loss, and
their struggle to find resources that weren’t too clinical, overtly religious,
patronizing or, frankly, cheesy.
[This is just the beginning of a new phenomenon - we may add more information to this post periodically]
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