ABSTRACT
Mourning and memorialization 2.0, including Facebook memorial pages, have more permanence and can function to indefinitely immortalize the deceased and provide an unbounded online space for interactions between the living and the dead. Unlike cemeteries, which are the predominant physical memorialization space for the dead, Kastenbaum notes that cybermemorials provide a "nearly dimensionless form of memorialization occupies no fixed space. The continuing bonds between the living and the dead exist in cyberspace and have expanded beyond dedicated memorial websites. Individuals supplement traditional bereavement rituals, which often signaled the termination of bonds, with new technologically situated ritualized spaces for continuing bonds with the deceased. Three hundred and forty Wall postings contained "conversations" with the deceased. These conversation-based postings were often the longest, in that individuals wrote of experiences in which they wished the deceased could have participated or provided accounts of daily activities.
