ABSTRACT
The ritual work performed at Mindet.dk is complex and diverse. This chapter applies a 'time' perspective as our analytical take on these ritual practices and we suggest, as the point of departure, that with the death of very young children time itself is utterly distorted and the future of the parents. At the Danish website Mindet.dk parents Mindet.dk is an online forum for all those who experience loss and grief in relation to the death of spouses, parents, grandparents and friends. The professor of cultural history Anders Gustavsson who reminds people of the difference between 'life' after death and 'existence' after death in his study of online memorial sites in Norway and Sweeden. The chapter focuses solely on the ritualizations performed by parents of stillborns and infants since these practices are special from a time perspective because of the very short lives of the deceased.
