Archinect - News 2024-11-21T16:31:09-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/147965230/of-death-and-facebook Of death and Facebook Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-02-12T13:50:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/z1/z1zcb4x4x29t6lgb.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>dying online is open to anyone willing to share his or her end with the blogosphere. [...] This dissolving of the barriers between the public and the intimate is death&rsquo;s vital new upgrade... death has acquired a &ldquo;neurotic separation&rdquo; from daily life, and this separation has been identified as part of the &ldquo;malaise of the late twentieth century.&rdquo; But thanks to the internet, death might be losing some of its pariah status.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Prompted by the recent mass internet-public mourning of David Bowie, as well as a few agencies that offer post-death social media updates to perpetuate the online persona of your late loved-ones, Adrian Shaughnessy (graphic designer at the Royal College of Art) reflects on how a death shared online gets us that one step closer to immortality, "or for as long as the links keep working."</p><p>More from the death-desk:</p><ul><li><a title="A story about death and architecture" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/127735218/a-story-about-death-and-architecture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A story about death and architecture</a></li><li><a title="They died as they designed: famous architects' self-styled gravestones" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/123740675/they-died-as-they-designed-famous-architects-self-styled-gravestones" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">They died as they designed: famous architects' self-styled gravestones</a></li><li><a title="Architect proposes turning dead humans into compost" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/122440514/architect-proposes-turning-dead-humans-into-compost" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Architect proposes turning dead humans into compost</a></li><li><a title="Seattle architect seeks to redesign America's burial landscape" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/122124114/seattle-architect-seeks-to-redesign-america-s-burial-landscape" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seattle architect seeks to redesign America's burial landscape</a></li></ul>