Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Pushing Daisies Was Never Easier!



If you find it hard to get your mind around an afterlife, after real life, now you'll have to try to comprehend a Second Life-After virtual life! Yes, Second life is home to many strange and wondrous places and ideas, and Second Afterlife Cemetery qualifies as both, melding the real with the surreal, and the reality of death, loss and heartbreak occurring in two separate realities, into one solemn experience.
Created in March of 2008 the idea born of Lena Anthony and Rocket Flasheart the purpose of the Second Afterlife Cemetery is to "provide a place for people to officially reach a conclusion to their Second Life and/or the place to honor the memory of an avatars Second Life friends". What they didn't expect was that it would eventually became a place to memorialize real life friends and family as well. Both types of memorials reside here and taking a walk through this virtual cemetery invokes a deep sense of profound loss made poignant by the fact that you are honoring the dead from both worlds, in a virtual one. As any resident can tell you, the loss of an avatar is sad and while strolling through the gracious grounds, you can easily tell the Second Life departed. Their stones carry recent dates; Jan 2008 - March 2009, identify them as avatars and yes, even avatars once lost, what made them unique, just as in real life, cannot be recreated. This is sorrowful enough, but when you come across a tomb dated; 1989 to 2009, you come to the sudden realization that you've crossed into a double story, tragic and stunningly real, in both places, at the same time.

Gone are the days we can touch you
We feel you forever in our hearts
Gone are the days we can see you
We have you in our memories

The Cemetery offers memorial and funeral services. You can purchase a variety of grave/tombstones for the deceased and they encourage you to add the deceased's photos and memories. The grounds are spacious, soothing and tidy, offering a refuge for deep introspection, a place to remember friends and/or family.
In Conclusion, Second Afterlife Cemetery teeters continuously on the edge of the serious, and the preposterous, yet some things that seem trivial today, often turn out to have great meaning tomorrow. Pay a visit to Second life Afterlife Cemetery, and share a vision of the future.

Second Afterlife Cemetery

Second Afterlife Website

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