MargieG

Thanks Knot for replying - my email address: Margaret.Gibson@griffith.edu.au Would love to hear more.... regards, MargieG

If so, what was it like? Did it move you? Who was it for? Also, to give more context can you answer some or all of the following (only if you are comfortable with this information - otherwise you could email me separately 1. Your date of birth 2. What country you live in 3. How long you have been a member of Second Life

Dear second life participants, I have an avatar (or 2) and to be honest am pretty crap at it - call me technologically challenged if you will but I am a good writer (I hope) and would like to capture your experiences, ideas and attitudes about death ritual and grief in Second Life. So this initial forum post thread is about asking many of you if you would be willing to be part of a research project I am doing on death ritual and mourning in virtual worlds and communities.  I am an academic, a sociologist teaching and researching in School of Humanities, Griffith University, Australia. I have published quite a lot on death, grief  and mourning in modern life. If you are over 18 years of age and willing to answer my specific research questions I would be very grateful and delighted Please feel free to respond to the forum threads I post or indeed feel free to email separately about this research. Hopefully this research will inform a  book publication on Virtual Cultures of Mourning and Memorialisation.  regards and thanks, Margaret Gibson (MargieG)