Facebook Memorials - Keeping their Memory Alive

Facebook is not just for the living.  There you'll find my late husband, Kevin Boitson.  After a devastating alert passed across my screen telling me "You haven't connected with Kevin in a while" when he had been dead a couple of months, I was informed by friends that I could immortalize him in Facebook by having his active page changed to a memoriam page.  The only way one knows this is by clicking on his Facebook page to see that it's a memorial page.

When I first had it changed over to a Memorial page I wondered if I would be the only one leaving comments.  This isn't the case.  Many of his friends wished him a Happy Birthday in heaven and shared moments of reflection on memories they once had together.  As a birthday occurred today for another widow's husband (whom also died of Angiosarcoma) I shared a 'Happy Birthday' on his page.  I had to wonder if all of Facebook friends knew he had died?

Facebook is considerate of this fact and has come a long way since I became a widow.  It took petition writing for them to honor us with a "widowed" relationship status when we weren't single and didn't want it to be complicated (but oh how it was)!  You can read Facebook's blog about how to create a memorial page for a loved one who has died.  While it may not be for everyone, it has been healing for me to read others memories of my late husband and to know that I am not grieving alone for his death.