Funerals for the Living??
Friday, June 26th, 2009So… today I received an invitation to someone’s funeral in Second Life™. Somewhat concerned by this odd invite, I IMed the sender immediately to ask of the wellbeing of the person whose ‘funeral’ this was. ‘What happened to him?’ I asked. ‘Oh nothing, but he has to leave SL.’
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!
Ok, I had to get that out of my system. I feel better now. But seriously, what is wrong with people? A funeral for someone because they leave Second Life? What?!?!?! Would you all hold a funeral for me if I was going to be unable to check my email for a while? NO! Would you bollocks and if you did I would have you sectioned! Every single one of you. This new level of insanity is a little bit worrying, don’t you think?
I can get my head around memorial services in Second Life when SL residents die in RL. Afterall, we all make good friends here and a chance to say goodbye is always a wonderful experience. But funerals for the living are, well, entirely crazy. And come on… how many times do people say “I’m leaving Second Life,” and never mean it? You know the sort. They fight with someone, they declare that they are leaving, change their profile to some hideously depressing song lyrics about being eternally in unrequited love/pissed off/emo and then log out. But before they even hit the uninstall key they have logged back on, are repartnered to someone else and have exchanged aforementioned lyrics for a list of cheesy cliches about the latest love of their life. Alternatively they log out and create an alt so nobody knows they are back! The point is that a funeral is supposed to be a final goodbye. It’s kind of wasted if the person whose funeral it is can just pop up at any time to say ‘hey’ and catch up on the latest drama, isn’t it?
Urgh… cue a surge of pixel funeral homes.
For the record, I declined that invitation.
