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- PATSCRU, on 10/10/2007, -1/+49MyDeathSpace is amazing. At first i thought it was some weird guro site for Rotten.com adherents, but it is completely real and completely dedicated to commemorating and spreading awareness about people who have died and how they've died. They do this in a meticulous fashion, and list the cause of death for each person. Suicides, Car Accidents, Murders, even the Murderers themselves get links to their myspace pages.
The most eye opening aspect of the site is the ability to see past grim statistics and look into the lives and friends of someone who was touched by tragedy. I'm bombarded by statistics and news of anonymous homicide all day long, but putting a face and a story to each of those statistics is more profound than you could know. - JudgeMonkey, on 10/10/2007, -2/+30Link? I'm just hungry.
- thanethane, on 10/10/2007, -1/+28DIGG - the new DOS engine.
- broeks, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26When my roommate passed in a car crash hundreds of people wrote stuff to him on his Facebook wall. Kind of an "online memorial". Unfortunately, FB took it down. I'm not sure how they figured that out, or why they elected to do so. I kind of wish they had not.
- speedk0re, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24there's water in showers usually
- stevenstclair, on 10/10/2007, -3/+24direct link to the website the story pertains to ------> http://www.mydeathspace.com/
Mydeathspace is just creepy. - sacherjj, on 10/10/2007, -2/+22I see dead website.
- Detritus, on 10/10/2007, -10/+26Don't be an hero.
- AcePup, on 10/10/2007, -15/+31This is nothing new and has been around for quite a long time.
- samdu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16I was hoping for MySpace Ghost Coast to Coast.
- twrife, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15The thing that creeps me out is that it gets 100k hits a day...
- xpose, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13"Submit new Death" . Now that is just weird.
- dictum, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Link? I'm just twisted.
- CYR1X, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13lol its down... or dead!
- undergrace, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9Yeah, Facebook does that pretty frequently - they claim it's because they don't want the media to take the photos/info off of profiles for their stories, but by the time Facebook learns of a death it's all been harvested anyway. A girl at my alma mater was murdered last year and it was a huge story in Houston - a few days later Facebook deleted her profile. A lot of people were very upset, because not only did it remove her personal page but they lost all the comments/messages that she wrote on their own pages that they wanted to keep. I understand making it Friends Only so only certain users can view the profile, but to delete it altogether is very insensitive to the grieving family and friends. Facebook should really realize the connection people have with these profiles and let them stay up in memoriam. Hopefully one day they will.
- Aslan72, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9would you say it's dead?
- aydoubleyou, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9Digg Effect - 1
MyDeathSpace - 0 - Satanael, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Remember the myspace of the girl that was cut up and barbecued at some college dorm? That was ***** creepy...
- jkizzle, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6a buddy of mine who died from cancer had two pages, as he was in a fairly popular band, one for his fans, and one for his friends. while his fan page is littered with 14 yr old girls who still post "omg i miss u" ... his personal page has actually become quite consoling to his family and close friends, as people share stories and memories with eachother
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Digg-whores?
MyDeathSpace: A Place For Necros
Cogwheim submitted 70 days ago
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/MyDeathSpace_A_Place_For_Necros
MyDeathSpace
Schnep97 submitted 165 days ago
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/MyDeathSpace
This is Weird
GooksBirman submitted 19 hours 59 min ago
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/This_is_Weird
MySpace Users Mourn At MyDeathSpace
Alexius submitted 332 days ago
http://digg.com/tech_news/MySpace_Users_Mourn_At_MyDeathSpace
Strangest Deaths on mydeathspace.com
robioland submitted 33 days ago
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Strangest_Deaths_on_mydeathspace_com
MyDeathSpace: a space for (dead) friends
mokuska submitted 5 hours 56 min ago
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/MyDeathSpace_a_space_for_dead_friends
MySpace & RSS Obituary Websites Remembers the Dead
trae4nato submitted 311 days ago
http://digg.com/tech_news/MySpace_RSS_Obituary_Websites_Remembers_the_Dead
Le cimetière MySpace
FrancoisGuite submitted 331 days ago
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Le_cimeti_re_MySpace
Mydeathspace.com archives dead MySpace members
sprink submitted 4 hours 43 min ago
http://digg.com/tech_news/Mydeathspace_com_archives_dead_MySpace_members
MySpace pages of Monday's confirmed victims of VT massacre.
freakshowlee submitted 104 days ago
http://digg.com/world_news/MySpace_pages_of_Monday_s_confirmed_victims_of_VT_massacre
"[Links to the MySpace pages of Ryan Clark and Ross Alameddine, 2 confirmed dead of the 33 killed in the Virginia Tech shootings. Other pages of unconfirmed dead available here: http://www.mydeathspace.com/article/2007/04/16/ 32_people_were_killed_at_Virginia_Tech_University_on_April_1 6,_2007 ]"
MyDeathSpace, in loving memory of our friends
thelionofgod submitted 319 days ago
http://digg.com/tech_news/MyDeathSpace_in_loving_memory_of_our_friends
MySpace Users Mourn At MyDeathSpace
battlefield1985 submitted 331 days ago
http://digg.com/offbeat_news/MySpace_Users_Mourn_At_MyDeathSpace_2
When the page advising you of redundant posts appears try and resist the urge to click submit. - OrangeTide, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6two ways, pass out face up with the shower shooting down your mouth and nose. pass out face down and plug the drain with your hair, forehead, hand, whatever.
people don't die in the shower often enough for us to do anything about it. but if you're concerned what you need is a rope you tie around your wrist that when it is pulled gently it turns off the water. like a kill switch.
all you need to do is slip and fall in the shower and you can knock yourself out. or if you have a seizure or nympholepsy it can be an even more serious concern. - hello2usir, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6That's not how the site started out. In the very beginning it was all about rejoicing in the deaths of MySpacers. The owner sold t-shirts and buttons with laughing skull and crossbones on it. Comments about each death were mean-spirited and offensive and people used it as a means to troll and hurt the loved-ones of the deceased by leaving comments right on the Myspace profile.
That is until the site owner was threatened to clean up his act or get shut down. He changed his tune real quick. - Calypsoaf, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6You're not cool enough to get dugg now either.
- SteelChicken, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5we should ban trees, they are dangerous
- Misos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4http://archive.org
- AshFire87, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Link? I'm just curious.
- josegutz, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4MySpace Ghost Coast to Coast?
- netkid91, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Diggs!=Views, an article can get ~200 diggs and over 7000 views
- Cyber_Akuma, on 10/10/2007, -2/+5I see them all the time, usually they murdered by The Digg Effect.
- lifeat24fps, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3MyDeathSpace has been the #1 reason I refuse to have a MySpace profile. It creeped me out so much that went to the extent of sealing my user names and passwords in an envelope, in my fire-safe, with specific instructions to make an attempt to delete my online presence should I pass unexpectedly.
- wipis, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4This is something I have occasionally contemplated. Mental masturbation but still interesting if you ask me. What happens to all the accounts we have after we die. Most of these web sites (myspace, facebook, live journal etc) and web email services have no way of knowing or ever find out that we die. So these accounts live on, at least for a while, till the account is booted. Do we leave a permanent digital imprint on the world? Something to think about. Never really gotten any answeres.
- maiku00, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4lol
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Becoming popular do to death = not cool
- xerus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Welcome to Digg.
- Bishop256, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Call PBS
Tell Them Inertia is a property of matter
im SOO smart - lordtyros, on 10/10/2007, -2/+4do me a favore...
- Soulicro, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3OK, but you're not the only user on Digg - actually theres a ***** load more out there, and a very good amount of them probably never even register.
I am amongst those that didn't see it. Why should I miss out because I wasn't on Digg the exact time it was on the front page? - andrgo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I'm surprised no one's heard of this before, it was quite popular in its peak a few months ago.
- Misos, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Pretty sure they already did.
- parax, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Yes, it is. It's creepy for so many reasons. I dunno, death used to be such a personal thing. And I don't like the whole internet-style vigilante justice when people see someone is accused of something, like the mistaken identity girl mentioned in the story. 20 million people all have to throw their own personal stone at someone they perceive as having done something wrong. Web site's like this just perpetuate that kind of mentality. And now it doesn't even matter that it was mistaken identity, because there's still half a million people who won't see the correction and they want to make sure the girl doesn't escape from what they think she's guilty of. ***** internet, I hate it.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2That's a tough read (the death site)......makes you tear up.
- jeylux, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1nevermind, this guy beat everyone...
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/New_Site_Dedicated_to_the_Death_of_Myspace_Users...62_counting - jasoncz1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1please refer to earlier comments, there were 3 suggested methods at the moment.
- fak3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Ah, glad I wasn't the only one that read it that way!
- jasoncz1, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1May those people RIP, may their myspace pages RIP, may their mydeathspace pages RIP. Ok that's all.
- fak3r, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1It's a good point, we have all of these kids giving away way too much information about themselves online to millions of people - now some picture of them drunk at a party is their legacy. I'm very much for people to be very careful of how much of themselves they reveal online (insert bad nude picture joke here).
- lavoie0ca, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1lmao.
was gonna say, even if its "old news" it still cant take the digg. - Terr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Time to move their profiles to http://www.respectance.com/ (profile site for the deceased) I guess
- jeylux, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1indeed... http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Dead_People_Of_MySpace...
- mitrovarr, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Be epileptic or (maybe) narcoleptic, have a nonlethal stroke that causes unconsciousness, slip and hit your head just right and get knocked out, hyperventilate for whatever reason until you pass out, get a embolism or aneurysm, or end up helpless in any other way, and be unlucky enough to fall so that your nose and mouth are either blocked or underwater. It takes pretty horrible luck, but enough people take enough showers that it doesn't surprise me at all that it happens.
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