Last week, the 20 year old son of a well known and very much respected advertising professional, died in a stupid-stupid-stupid accident during a party with fellow students. The kind of thing that scares the shit out of you when you have teenage kids and the always present 'so-much-can-happen-to-them' fear pops up, again.
His friends have started a remembrance website where people not only can leave their condolences but where friends can upload pictures, video's, even songs.
The very thoughtfull thing about this very simple site is that it's really meant for the family. Apparantly thousands have already uploaded a personal note but except for the occasional quote on the homepage, you cannot browse them. Not like on other condolences-sites where you sometimes get the feeling that they are meant as public platforms ('see what I wrote? And how eloquently too?'). The upload function for songs and video's has been deactivated, probably due to too many uploads. If there are any, they are not for the public eye. And the small selection of images suggests that there's probably much more but that these are gifts to the family who lost a son.
This is actually what a condolence site should be about.
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