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Monday, July 21st, 2008

Remote mourning: A Tacoma funeral home streams services to the World Wide Web

Posted by C.R. Roberts @ 08:17:00 am

If you’re looking for a way to attend a funeral without attending a funeral, then Tacoma’s Gaffney Funeral Home may have the answer.

Live and via archive, Gaffney has recently begun offering a webcasting service wherein memorial services are recorded and broadcast, and saved, electronically.

So now, out-of-town loved ones need not travel to attend the final rites. Shut-ins can finally participate. A wider circle – a wider world – of friends and associates can share in the grief and celebration of someone’s passing.

“It is our goal to help everyone come together to celebrate the life of their loved one, and find comfort,” the business said in a release late last week.

“Many people haven’t heard about webcasting,” said Corey Gaffney. “A webcast is simply a broadcast of the service, distributed over the Internet using streaming technology. It can be viewed live or recorded, and viewed when friends and family wish to – sometimes over and over again. The broadcast is password protected, so the service is as private as it originally was.”

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