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Funeral Webcasts Bring Grieving Online

by Tim Stevens on January 21, 2009 at 11:38 AM

Funeral Webcasts Bring Grieving Online
We've seen how you can plan your funeral online, which seems like a reasonable thing these days given that you can plan just about anything else on the Internet. However, did you know that you can now attend a funeral online? That's a service currently offered by Shoedinger Funeral and Cremation Service in Columbus, Ohio (as well as a few other places), and is a service we think will become rather more common as people become less inclined to travel.

Shoedinger enables families to create a private Web site that hosts video of the funeral as it happens, but Shoedinger isn't the only player in the game. Director's Advantage, a company that offers technical services and advice for funeral directors, also offers a similar service enabling family or friends for whom travel is impossible or impractical, including one case where a soldier deployed in Iraq was able to view his grandmother's funeral in North Carolina. Right now, adding online streaming to a funeral package is free in some places, like at Shoedinger's, but is about $300 in others. So, shop around. [From: The Associated Press]

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