[New post] The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning

Rachel Vorona Cote posted: "Rachel Vorona Cote | Longreads | May 21, 2019 | 15 minutes (3,975 words)   My mother died shortly after 4 a.m. in the pitch black of a November morning. By roughly 8:30 a.m. that day, the 29th, I had alerted my Twitter and Instagram followers, as w" New post on Longreads The Fraught Culture of Online Mourning by Rachel Vorona Cote Rachel Vorona Cote | Longreads | May 21, 2019 | 15 minutes (3,975 words)   My mother died shortly after 4 a.m. in the pitch black of a November morning. By roughly 8:30 a.m. that day, the 29th, I had alerted my Twitter and Instagram followers, as well as my Facebook friends. I copied and pasted a few lines across the three platforms, words hastily cobbled together in something akin to a fugue state, accompanied by stray photos of my mother that I had saved on my phone — I had posted about her frequently as her condition worsened, particularly after she arrived at that grim point at which death became imminent death. Read more of this post Rachel Vorona Cote | May 21, 2019 at 6:00 am | Tags: death, grief, internet culture, mourning, Rachel Vorona Cote | Categories: culture, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story | URL: https://wp.me/p4KhvY-ws5 Like Unsubscribe to no longer receive posts from Longreads. Change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions. Trouble clicking? Copy and paste this URL into your browser: http://longreads.com/2019/05/21/the-fraught-culture-of-online-mourning/ Thanks for flying with WordPress.com