Comments on: MyDeathSpace

MyDeathSpace

xmutex — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:35:09 -0800

MyDeathSpace keeps track of the MySpace profiles of people that die.

By: easternblot

easternblot — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:42:29 -0800

I think this is a double, but I can't find the original. Or maybe the other post was about livejournal deaths. Whatever it was, I've seen something this macabre on here before...

By: thefreek

thefreek — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:43:48 -0800

there's www.deadjournal.com

By: mathowie

mathowie — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:44:08 -0800

Given the size of myspace (20 million? 50 million? 200 million accounts?) I suspect someone will die pretty much every day, just by the odds of such large numbers. The worst part is when obit stories are tweaked to somehow create a link between myspace contributing to a death.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:47:05 -0800

Whoa, they're tracking MySpace murderers too!

By: thinman

thinman — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:47:07 -0800

This was the previous similar thread.

By: NationalKato

NationalKato — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:52:14 -0800

How do you know if someone's in your network if you're dead?

By: flaterik

flaterik — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:58:23 -0800

Mathowie, it's about 70 million right now. Of course not all of those are active. And many are bands, or fake. But that's a still a helluva lot of people. Given how many people that I encounter have a MySpace profile, even if they don't use it, there's a significant chance anyone aged 16-30 that dies is going to have one.

By: empath

empath — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:03:49 -0800

Serious question: For those of you who HAVE had friends die, do you keep them on your friends list? If not, how long did you keep them there? I had two friends die in the past couple of months, and I'm honestly not sure what to do.

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:03:53 -0800

The series of MySpacer profiles from the recent Washington zombie party murders was disquieting. Actually, the whole endeavor is disquieting.

By: OmieWise

OmieWise — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:14:03 -0800

It really brings home how many people die in car accidents.

By: greycap

greycap — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:24:56 -0800

This made for grim reading. Yeah, it's scary how many have died in car crashes or through some other violent means.

By: pzarquon

pzarquon — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:25:35 -0800

Holy cow. I was just wondering about whether there was a site like this, after a friend found the MySpace profile of a woman who died in a car wreck here in Honolulu last night. And we've had a spate of the typical media hysteria over pedophiles and stalkers on the site, with URLs of alleged victims and perpetrators making the rounds...

By: brain_drain

brain_drain — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:37:30 -0800

By: Gungho

Gungho — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:38:52 -0800

empath, on a similar note, how long before you delete their email addresses from your address book? I have a few that I can't bear to part with because every once in a while I'll see their name in my book and smile.

By: Alt F4

Alt F4 — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:50:42 -0800

Sad. Especially the murdered ravers.

By: thanotopsis

thanotopsis — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:53:52 -0800

I'll see their name in my book and smile. I have the last email my father sent me 13 years ago before he was killed 24 hours later. It wasn't much, just a few responses to a question I had. He was 45. I've had many jobs and many computers since then, but I always manage to keep the archive around and incoporate it into something bigger. He and I didn't really get along, but it's still something I can show the world (besides myself and my brother) that proves he was here.

By: VulcanMike

VulcanMike — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:59:37 -0800

It's a really new, and fairly incredible experience to go through these pages. I remember in school how history classes used to emphasize the importance of primary sources for a true understanding of the what was being studied. Today, you can go directly from secondary sources to primary sources, which is in certain cases the public/group blog< ->Mainstream Media model we have today, but it's so much more poignant when it's personal blog/site< ->MSM... My father has talked a lot about the MSM coverage of deaths on an individal level pushed public sentiment about the Vietnam war towards its tipping point. It may be worthwhile to create a wounded/killed site like this for members of the military alone -- I certainly would like to honor them in the context of their own lives and words.

By: ijoshua

ijoshua — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:03:35 -0800

thanotopsis, that must be one of those eponysterical things... Even though your nick is a misspelling of the title of the poem, and the poet was Bryant, not Elliot...

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:08:42 -0800

Holy crap! Go to page 7 and check out the Taylor Behl/Ben Fawley story! I wonder who owns the film/book rights to that one?

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:10:56 -0800

So Matt....when you gonna set up MortalFilter? Isn't it time we started "posting inThe Black?"

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:12:57 -0800

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By: gnutron

gnutron — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:15:10 -0800

By: killdevil

killdevil — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:32:21 -0800

By: iamck

iamck — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:44:49 -0800

That Tom, he has some wacky friends.

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:53:54 -0800

[this is sad]

By: borkingchikapa

borkingchikapa — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:13:39 -0800

Is there are site that compiles blogs of soldiers who have died in Iraq/Afghanistan?

By: Sijeka

Sijeka — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:25:24 -0800

. [this is creepy and sinks into voyeurism]

By: SuzySmith

SuzySmith — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 12:25:55 -0800

Serious question: For those of you who HAVE had friends die, do you keep them on your friends list? If not, how long did you keep them there? On another site (iam.bmezine.com) I still have a friend listed who died last summer. I can't delete him from my buddy list, even if seeing the picture makes me sad. Especially, as it was a fairly grim looking picture to begin with.

By: jeffmik

jeffmik — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:24:21 -0800

Cause of Death: "Animation overdose while viewing MySpace pages"

By: drstein

drstein — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 13:51:17 -0800

Um, deadjournal.com is far far different. heh. There used to be a pretty active livejournal.com community for this, but in an amazing display of hypocrisy, the LiveJournal Abuse "staff" pretty much forced the guy off of LJ. Overall, it's kind of an interesting site. I don't think that there's anything wrong with it.

By: Skwirl

Skwirl — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:20:53 -0800

It kind of amazes me when people don't deviate from txt speech even when they're writing memorials.

By: Francesnash

Francesnash — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:26:17 -0800

I guess this is a way to remember them. And maybe they would appreciate that....

By: VulcanMike

VulcanMike — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:55:30 -0800

Skwirl wrote "It kind of amazes me when people don't deviate from txt speech even when they're writing memorials." From my experiences getting random IMs from high schoolers and younger, they don't deviate from TXT speech because it's their native form of casual written speech... To me, it takes effort to write that way. To them, the idea of writing any other way seems absurd.

By: litlnemo

litlnemo — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 16:00:20 -0800

"empath, on a similar note, how long before you delete their email addresses from your address book? I have a few that I can't bear to part with because every once in a while I'll see their name in my book and smile." Yes, I'm the same. I don't think I'll ever delete them.

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:04:37 -0800

This is really sad. Young people are always dying from doing dumb shit, but something about seeing so many of them in one place is very disturbing. Car crash, alcohol, shot, stabbed, suicide...

By: NorthernSky

NorthernSky — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 00:16:29 -0800

I still have my best friend's number on my cell, could never bring myself to delete it.