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Are social media changing the way we mourn and grieve? As Lucky Severson reports, millions now turn to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube to participate digitally in group grieving\u2014especially in the aftermath of events such as recent terrorist attacks, gun violence, and natural disasters; to console and comfort, share sympathies, and memorialize death. But how real is virtual grief, and how well do social media alleviate human pain?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Cyberspace just gives us a new place to grieve, a new place to create rituals, a new place to memorialize the death of someone we care about,” says Carla Sofka, professor of social work at Siena College and co-editor of a book on death and grief in an online universe. 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