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Internet helps friends, family memorialize deceased

and it helped me to be able to get in touch with them. (His death) was really difficult and sudden

no warning or anything she said.

Wires said that her son's Facebook page helped her to grieve.

I know he felt so alone during the last year or so and it made me feel good to see that he wasn't alone

that he did have friends

she said.

When Tami Wires' son, Josh Wires, an Ohio University sophomore, committed suicide over Christmas break, one of the first places she turned was Facebook.

I knew that all of his friends were on Facebook

and it helped me to be able to get in touch with them. (His death) was really difficult and sudden

no warning or anything

she said.

Wires said that her son's Facebook page helped her to grieve.

I know he felt so alone during the last year or so

and it made me feel good to see that he wasn't alone

that he did have friends

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