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When online grief communities replace local relationships

Everyone in my virtual grief support group lives in different time zones and I'm starting to prefer their company at 3am to my real life friends during the day.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The asynchronous intimacy of digital mourning can become a parallel life that feels more real than embodied existence.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief groups and communities?”

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