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By BARBARA ORTUTAY (AP) – 5 hours ago

NEW YORK — Death doesn’t erase the online footprints that people leave in life and Facebook won’t either, though it will make some changes.

The five-year-old social network will “memorialize” profiles of the dead if their friends or family request it.

Such accounts will be different from regular Facebook profiles.

For example, the site will remove any contact information and bar people from logging in. The person’s profile also won’t appear in the “suggestions” section of Facebook, and only the deceased person’s confirmed friends will be able to find them in a search.

The development comes as Facebook becomes an important social hub for its more than 300 million active users worldwide to keep up with friends and family.

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www.gravescape.com

Gravescape is a nationwide comprehensive provider of gravesite services and merchandise for all seasons and occasions.

The loss of a loved one has an everlasting effect on us. In our hearts and minds, we keep the memories alive. And, when we can, we adorn the resting place with flowers and tokens of affection, to show we remember and continue to care.

But for many of us, it can be difficult or even impossible to visit a gravesite – not for lack of time or the desire, but because we’re limited by distance, physical ability or other constraints.

At Gravescape, that’s why we’re here – to help you pay tribute to the ones you love.

On holidays and anniversaries, for special occasions or just the changing seasons, we deliver flowers and wreaths to gravesites. We create small beds for live plants. We clean up markers and monuments with tender loving care. And we photograph gravesites in cemeteries throughout the United States.

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www.naturalburial.coop

The modern concept of natural burial began in the UK in 1993 and has since spread across the globe. The Centre for Natural Burial provides comprehensive resources supporting the development of natural burial and detailed information about natural burial in your area:

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www.thefuneralsite.com

TheFuneralSite.com help you explore options and find providers to personalize a funeral or end of life celebrations.

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http://www.funeralinformationsociety.org/

The Funeral Consumers Information Society believes in voluntary, informed choices regarding long-term health care, estate planning and final arrangements, and supports and encourages the consumer’s right to choose a meaningful, dignified and affordable funeral.

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http://www.katu.com/news/15056866.html

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www.deathndementia.com

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mourningphotography.com

The Museum of Mourning Photography & Memorial Practice is not intended for morbid fascination, but as an investigation into human ritual.  The Museums’ focus is on how photography, a tool and artistic medium, preserves memory as an expressive cultural document.  Our mission at the Museum is to collect, showcase, preserve, and disseminate information pertaining to all facets of Memorial Practice.  The Museum is a resource for both the anthropologist and artist alike.

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www.funeralwire.com

“Your Leading Source for Deathcare industry news.”

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Story from ABC News

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=4175238

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News article from Time Magazine

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1708004,00.html

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http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2008/01/15/funeral-wallet.html?ref=rss

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Modern technology helps ease some of the pain of friends and family who are unable to attend services for loved ones at one Vallejo mortuary.

http://www.timesheraldonline.com/ci_8019931

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/18/london/main3726680.shtml

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Article from  mlive.com Michigan News…

http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/home_funerals_personalize_grie.html

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http://bside.com/films/lastingimages

Film Synopsis

You know the saying ”death and taxes….,” but tax time comes only once a year and death comes approximately ninety six times per minute. What will be done with you when your minute arrives? Enter Lasting Images, a feature documentary taking a peek at the lighter side of contemporary choices in human remains disposition.

Traditional, six feet under burials are still the first choice among Americans today, so four months were spent following students at a Mortuary Science School filming the beginning to end process of Traditional Burial, and gathering information regarding non-traditional methods of human disposal and memorials.

Then it was on to Cremation, the second most popular choice today. The filmmakers drove all across the US to not only document the numerous ways people use the ashes of their loved one to honor the lighter side of their lives, but also to film an actual cremation.

Next the growing alternative Green movement was explored.

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Biodegradable coffins, ‘green’ cemeteries are part of ‘natural’ burial trend…

Story from MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22401413

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