Photograph: Caity~Starry Starry Night by Skip Staheli
pictures of the one they have lost and pulling them out to show and share. Last December when AlyButterCookie died unexpectedly, her uncle Skip Staheli edited a photo he had taken earlier, adding the angel wings she had just acquired and placing her in the heavenly environment she imagined for her. These Page 98 | ECLIPSE August 2015
expressions of loss are beautiful and touching, and they provide that memento mori that people long for. There is one mourning ritual that is unique, I think, to Second Life. When we lose people we love in our first lives, we do not turn our