The Death Goes Digital Podcast

Does Digital Immortality Affect How People Grieve? - Debra Bassett Phd Researcher On Digital Immortality


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Debra Bassett a PhD research student from Warwick University, England chats about the development of social networks and websites that provide digital opportunities to remember loved ones. She is studying how these may or may not help with the process of grieving. 


"The fact that we are all going to die is an indisputable reality of the human condition. Whilst the beginning of our lives are celebrated, discussed and chronicled, death and dying have become medicalized, sanitized and whispered about in many Western cultures."

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