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For millennia, the rituals of fatality and remembrance have been fixed by time and location, but in the 21st hundred years, grieving has become a virtual happening. Today, the deceased live on through social marketing profiles, memorial websites, and saved voicemails that may be accessed at any time. This dramatic ethnical move has made the physical presence of death secondary to the emotional connection with mourning. Exclusive Afterlives investigates emerging popular bereavement traditions. Creator 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 capacity to treatment grief. As grieving traditions and locations move, people are discovering new ways to memorialize themselves. 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 tattoo designs are adding to a new bereavement terms that crosses national boundaries and culture-specific perceptions of fatality. Examining mourning tactics in america in comparison to the broader background of tactics in Asia and Latin America, Virtual Afterlives seeks to resituate fatality as part of life and mourning as a unifying process that really helps to create identities and narratives for communities. As technology changes the ways that we experience fatality, this engaging analysis explores the culture of bereavement and the ways that it, too, is being significantly altered. The book is printed by University or college Press of Kentucky.
