Benazir Bhutto Remembered In Second Life
It's been a week since Benazir Bhutto was brutally assassinated, and memorials for the slain politician have spilled over into the virtual world via Second Life. Jeanette Forager, the architect of the memorial in the MMO had this to say about her construct:
When I heard the news of Bhutto's assassination, I felt grateful to have the SL platform to express my feelings of sadness and concern for Pakistan; and indeed, the entire world....
Hundreds of people (if not thousands) have come to visit the memorial and it has given visitors a chance to share their pain and offer heart-felt sympathy for the loss of a remarkable woman.
The politics of Pakistan are irrelevant. What is important to me is that I express my sympathy for the pain and suffering of the Pakistani people and the Bhutto family. Through SL I am able to create an opportunity for all of us to offer them our support and compassion.
Regardless of how one felt about Bhutto's politics, it was an awful thing that happened to her and I happen to think it's cool that someone in the SL community took it upon themselves to create an online memorial which people from around the world could visit.
Memorial for Benazir Bhutto [Second Life Herald]
[via GamePolitics
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Posted to Miscellany on 4 January 2008
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