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When your deceased sibling's video game avatar remains in shared online spaces

My brother's video game character is still active in this online world we used to play together and sometimes other players ask me where he has been and I do not know how to explain that he is dead.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital spaces where deceased people's avatars persist can create ongoing social situations that require repeated explanations of loss.

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