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Why strangers mourning your dead child online can feel like theft

My teenage daughter died in a hiking accident and her TikTok account has become a memorial where thousands of strangers are grieving her and it feels like they have stolen her from us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Public digital mourning can make private grief feel invaded and diminished.

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