The profiles of deceased members of MySpace are being archived by a new website, www.MyDeathSpace.com. The site allows the members’ profiles to become unwitting memorials. The community encapsulates the twin American obsessions of remembering the dead, and voyeurism. The site currently lists almost 2 700 deaths, and receives over 100 000 hits every day. A death can be submitted to the site by anyone with access to the Internet. The site has allowed the deceased members’ profiles to be frozen in time, and the date of their last log-in is the most telling detail. There are families who leave the profiles up as memorials. Bob Thompson, professor of television and popular culture at Syracuse University says, “This site does kind of let you look into the heart of darkness. We see those kinds of things that we try not to think about, which is how we are all dancing on the edge - how quickly mortality can come in and claim us”. MyDeathSpace came about when Mike Patterson, a paralegal from San Francisco, looked up the pages of two girls who were murdered by their father, and this grew into a live journal. It has even gone so far as to chart the deaths on a map of the US, even posting the profiles of homicide victims alongside those of their alleged killers. MySpace is not affiliated with the site, and has thus far given no comments.