Location: Two Virtual Places of Rest

For an assignment in an earlier course, my student “Ariena Weatherwax” had traveled to our city’s famous Hollywood Cemetery to do a photo-essay.  I suggested that she look into the rituals surrounding death and dying in Second Life®.

In part one, she explores a surprisingly realistic graveyard in-world and funeral home.  She finds it oddly disturbing in its banal details, such as the rows of folding chairs for a mourning family to use at a funeral.

In part two, Ariena discovers a cemetery that is less disquieting, a place to honor people who have died in our world and thus left the metaverse forever.

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