Somewhere deep in cyberspace, where reality blurs into fiction and the living greet the dead, there are ghosts. They live in a virtual graveyard without tombstones or flowers. They drift among the shadows of the people they used to be, and the pieces they left behind.

 

Allison Bauer left rainbows: Reds, yellows and blues, festooned across her MySpace profile in a collage of color. Before her corpse was pulled from the depths of an Oregon gorge on May 9, where police say she leapt to her death, she unwittingly wrote her own epitaph.

 

"I love color, Pure Color in rainbow form, And I love My friends," the 20-year-old wrote under "Interests" on her profile. "And I love to Love, I care about everyone so much you have no idea."

 

Now her page fills a plot on www.MyDeathSpace.com, a Web site that archives the pages of deceased MySpace members.

 

Behold a community spawned from twin American obsessions: Memorializing the dead and peering into strangers' lives. Anyone with Internet access can submit a death to the site, which currently lists nearly 2,700 deaths and receives more than 100,000 hits per day.

 

The tales are mostly those of the very young who died prematurely. Here, death roams cyberspace in all its spectral forms: senseless and indiscriminate, sometimes premeditated, often brutally graphic. It's also a place where the living — those who knew the deceased and those who didn't

 

Scrolling down a dead person's MySpace profile wall is like journeying into the past. The pages were abandoned hastily, without warning. Most telling is the date of each person's last log-in.

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,291316,00.html

very odd indeed

Haven't visited that site in about a year, I remember it being quite sad

 

Especially when you clicked on their profiles and you saw all their friends leaving messages addressing the deceased

 

Normally when you hear that somebody dies it gives no emotion because you don't know that person at all, and tons of people die every day. But when you can click on their profile and get a glimpse of who they were, what they liked, who they were friends with, etc etc then I dunno, it's just worse

Wow didn't know stuff like this was on mydeathspace:

 

http://mydeathspace.com/article/2007/07/30/Brigitte_Harris_(26)_is_wanted_for_questioning_over_the_murder_and_castration_of_her_father

Wow didn't know stuff like this was on mydeathspace:

 

http://mydeathspace.com/article/2007/07/30/Brigitte_Harris_(26)_is_wanted_for_questioning_over_the_murder_and_castration_of_her_father

your link isnt working for me.

yea, I imagine that would be a pretty depressing site to visit, but maybe helpful for those who are grieving

same...its not workin for me either

 

your link isnt working for me.

scratch that...its working now

 

same...its not workin for me either