While some funeral homes have message boards for family and friends of the deceased to leave their condolences, there is no spot where people can do that, as well as receive bereavement support, connect with other people and receive related health and mental health news.
SympathyTree.com allows users to create an online memorial, but it costs to use the site and doesn't appear to use social networking tools. Unending Legacy.com is similar to Sympathy Tree, but also lets users upload photos and videos. It is also a paid site. A sample memorial page is here. VirtualMemorials.com partners with GriefNet.org to offer bereavement support, but directs you to that site and doesn't offer all of the information in one spot. It also is predominantly a paid site. After 14 days, you either pay $55 or the site will convert your memorial page to its free offering, which is bare bones. As far as I can tell, none of these sites offer social networking. They allow you to e-mail your creation to friends and family, but don't have the "status updates" we'd discussed, or the options to basically have a manufactured two-way conversation with the dead. These sites also don't have news components.
OK. More to come this afternoon...Also, ran the ByeSpace name by the husband, who promptly told me it sounded like we were making a mockery of the dead. We might want tot hink about that.
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