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Social Networking 
Dying is no reason to give up online social life
April 29 By The Associated Press
In today's world of always-connected social media, there's no reason to stop interacting online simply because you're dead.
A wave of new companies are starting to offer services such as virtual cemeteries where guests can visit and e-mail alerts set up by funeral homes to remind relatives near and wide about the anniversary of your death.
Some companies even offer to e-mail your wayward relatives in danger of being left behind when the Rapture whisks you to the threshold of the Pearly Gates.
While such services seem to reach beyond the grave, a growing generation of funeral customers refuse to let death have the final word.
"People have a desire to perpetuate not only for themselves, but for their loved ones, the story of their lives, and technology has all these new great ways of doing that," said John McQueen, owner of the Anderson McQueen funeral home.
As baby boomers plunged headlong into online social media in recent years, they've become especially interested in upending the traditional philosophy that funerals are really meant for the survivors. After all, this is the "Me Generation."
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