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When your child's online memorial contains images you find disturbing

My teenage daughter died in a car accident and her friends created this whole Instagram shrine with photos I have never seen and some of them show her drinking and I do not know whether to ask them to take it down.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital memorials can reveal aspects of a loved one's life that complicate how families want them to be remembered.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Social media memorialization?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.