Washington, July 19 (ANI): Separate estimates from the digital legacy sites 1000Memories and Entrustet has indicated that Facebook grieving has become a standard behaviour.
Now, it has become almost as common as sending condolences and attending funerals.
"In the advent of growing online populations who are also inevitably aging, it's fair to say that grieving online is becoming a new and necessary death ritual," Discovery News quoted said Kimberly Falconer, a clinical psychology PhD candidate at University of Pennsylvania who has studied online grieving, as saying.
Falconer assessed the psychological value of online grieving as a means to work through the four tasks of mourning: accepting the reality of the loss, dealing with the pain, readjusting to the environment and reinvesting in life, while forging a new bond.
"Our understanding is that, overall, online grieving facilitates these tasks to a large extent," said Falconer.
"At a broad level, the faster communication, more widespread ability to normalize experiences and share emotions, increased access to social support and more durable communities, and the increasing safety and accessibility with which online memorials can be established are clear advantages,"he added. (ANI)
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