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[i_kender]

Here is a very odd story I ran across in the Guardian about how a 17 year old's murder has become the latest fad on Myspace. Not the gruesome details, rather strangers trying to outdo each other with outpourings of grief. Disturbing, although it does raise some interesting points about grief. Can you grieve for someone you've never met, or don't know, or a celebrity? Is that reflexive sympathy? Any excuse to leap towards catharsis? Or something else entirely?

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1775013,00.html