| Legacy.com has been covered by media outlets throughout the country. Below is a sampling of reports that have been aired and published about the Web site and the individuals who have come to depend on it to help them through times of grief. |
2008
MSNBC.com finds that Legacy.com's bereavement policy tops what's offered by many companies
"When [employees] do get it, two to three days of paid bereavement leave is the norm for most U.S. businesses and there are no signs that will be changing any time soon. But Legacy.com offers its employees - both full- and part-time - a full week of paid leave in the event of the death of a relative.
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"No one likes to think about it, but death is inevitable. After it happens, you won’t have to care about paying the electricity bill anymore, but what’ll happen to your blog, e-mail, online profiles?" asks the social networking news site Mashables.com.
Obituary writers are experimenting with new ways of presenting obits -- through video diaries, audio slideshows and blogs, online journalism portal Poynter Online reports.
People find way to mourn murdered Marine Cpl. Maria Lauterbach
After the brutal rape and murder of Marine Lance Cpl. Maria Frances Lauterbach, people from around the country mourned her online, including on Legacy.com, the Jacksonville (N.C.) News reports.
2007
Article about foundation set up for late son of baseball's Jeff Reardon mentions his Legacy.com Guest Book
The Massachusetts Berkshire Eagle reports on a donation from the Shane Reardon Memorial Foundation and mentions the Guest Book established by his family in his memory on Legacy.com. The Guest Book was a central component in an earlier story on "HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" (access to video clip below) about how the Reardon family dealt with the death of Shane.
U.K. newspaper becomes the latest Legacy.com affiliate
Midland News Association, publisher of the Express & Star and Shropshire Star, joins more than 500 other newspapers who use Legacy.com's services.
Boston Globe: A duty to honor
The newspaper details how families remember military fallen over Veterans Day.
Wisconsin ABC-TV affiliate reports on Legacy.com and the Crandon shootings
The Special Tribute Legacy.com created in memory of the six young people killed in a shooting in Crandon, Wisconsin on Oct. 7, 2007 was the focus of a news report by WBAY-TV, the ABC affiliate serving Green Bay, Fox Cities and northeast Wisconsin.
Editor & Publisher tells story of fallen U.S. military doctor through Legacy.com reports
After the Defense Department said little about how Army Capt. Dr. Roselee M. Hoffmaster died in a non-combat-related incident, the media trade magazine Editor & Publisher uses Capt. Hoffmaster's Legacy.com Guest Book to tell readers more about her.
"Montel" segment describes how Legacy.com helped a grieving father (video report)
The Montel show talks about how comforting the Legacy.com Guest Book has been to the father of a slain 11-year-old girl. After the show aired, entries in the Guest Book poured in from all over the country.
Baseball's Jeff Reardon tells HBO's "REAL Sports" how Legacy.com helped him grieve for his son (video report)
HBO's "REAL Sports with Bryant Gumbel" talks to retired baseball relief pitcher Jeff Reardon about how he and his family coped with the death of his 20-year-old son, including writing regularly in his Legacy.com Guest Book.
FOX News features Legacy.com (video report)
A family who has come to depend on Legacy.com’s "In Remembrance" section tells their story to the FOX News Channel for broadcast on Memorial Day weekend 2007.
Web sites provide memorials to those killed in war
A report by Media General National Correspondent James W. Crawley featuring Legacy.com appears in a number of Media General newspapers around the country, including the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal.
Prayers, remembrances offered online to the Laforest family
A story about the death of U.S. Army Specialist Mathew Laforest published in New York’s Press-Republican draws extensively from entries to his Legacy.com Guest Book.
Fallen soldiers mourned online
The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch reports a Page One story about online memorials, prominently featuring Legacy.com.
Technology responds to tragedy
“Legacy.com, an online obituary service, set up a guest book for people to type in notes about the tragedy,” the Seattle Times reports following the Virginia Tech shootings.
Strangers pour out their sadness online
“Legacy.com, an online obituary service, set up a guest book for people to write notes (in memory of those killed in the Virginia Tech shootings),” the Baltimore Sun reports. |
2006
In Online Mourning, Don’t Speak Ill of the Dead
“Legacy, which gets more than six million visitors a month and one comment every five seconds, says it vets everything before it is posted,” The New York Times reports.
Speaking to the dead — digitally
“When 18-year-old Amanda Bassler caught herself thinking of her friend Joshua Reif the other day, she posted a comment on his MySpace page: ‘Missin you buddy!!! LOVE YOU SOO MUCH!!’” the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
Online Memorials Bring Strangers and Friends Together in Community of Grief
“Days after his wife's death from inflammatory breast cancer in 2004, Michael Bloomer set up a Web page memorial,” The Washington Post reports. “An old co-worker from Florida signed Kim Bloomer's online guest book. So did a high school classmate in Michigan.”
Grief Online
Over Memorial Day weekend, Holly Fallon wrote a letter to her only child, Eric James Andrews: "It's been three months now, today. ... and I still feel numb …” the Southern California Press-Enterprise reports.
Websites offer mourning for youths online
“Online tributes are reshaping the way many people deal with death. Web eulogies, tributes, and memorials …” the Boston Globe reports.
Rituals of Grief Go Online
Just as the Web has changed long-established rituals of romance and socializing, personal Web pages on social networking sites … are altering the rituals of mourning,” The New York Times reports.
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