Obituários on-line

Como os sites dedicados a pessoas que já morreram se debatem com a máxima "death brings out the best and the worst in people.”

O artigo
Sites Invite Online Mourning, but Don’t Speak Ill of the Dead
By IAN URBINA
Published: November 5, 2006

EVANSTON, Ill. — Long-silent mistresses, disgruntled former employees, estranged family members — Katie Falzone has seen them all.
They turn to the online guest books at the obituary Web site where she works, Legacy.com, to convey unflattering thoughts about the recently departed.
It is Ms. Falzone’s job to stop them.
In a room here full of glowing computer terminals and hushed conversations, she and 44 other screeners pore over the 18,000 notes sent daily about the newly deceased, hoping to catch the backhanded compliments, meanspirited innuendo and airing of dark family secrets.
Dissing the dead, as these screeners call it, has become a costly and complicated problem for Legacy and other Web sites where people gather to mourn online. Legacy, which is now eight years old, carries a death notice or obituary for virtually all the roughly 2.4 million people who die each year, but few foresaw how nasty some of the postings to its guest books would be.

in New York Times - U.S.