Do you visit memorials?

Pretty simple... in SL, do you visit any sort of memorial?

I visit one every day, and a couple more at least once a week.

The daily one is the Transgender Suicide Memorial (I think the sim is Elysium or something similar). I found it when I needed it, and return daily to pay my respects to those lost.

I also visit a 9/11 memorial occasionally, and 'the wall' memorial as well. I've been to 'the wall' once in RL, with my mother, who was brought to two hours of tears... it was an experience I never want to have again... but I never want to forget.

So.. do you visit any at all? If so, which?

I leave RL on the other side of the log-in screen.

In the community where I live, memorials for various occasions are nicely organized and so I don't also need them in my SL. There is an army base near here and repatriation ceremonies are sadly having to be held way too frequently.

I come to SL to play.

I have visited some, but I don't do it on a regular basis.

--Hugsy

Hopefully this won't be too far off topic but it's worth a grim chuckle. Maybe.

The first time I visited a memorial it was back when I was young and dumb and it was unintentional. I had the habit of just clicking on the map to go places and popped into kind of a cool looking building with pictures of a man on the wall. I must have assumed it was some kind of store. For some reason I decided to change my clothes and work on my avatar a bit (used to be practically a compulsion) and stood there in that mode probably for a good ten minutes. When I finished and actually looked around I found I was standing in a memorial to someone who died and, as luck would have it, there was actually a vigil going on. Nobody said anything to me, but I took a candle and stayed for a while.

I don't actively seek them in SL and have mixed feelings about them in RL.

I have been meaning to go the Salem Witch Trials Memorial, but haven't made it yet. Perhaps I will do that today.

I've come across a few incidentally, but I don't visit them as a matter of course.

I have come across them but I don't seek them out. When I find them tho...I am aptly moved. I came across a Chernoble sim a while back that just had me completely floored and it struck me what an amazing tribute it was. People have a lot of different ways of expressing themselves and I think memorials in SL is testimony to just how much we are affected by the world we live in. RL or SL.... we cannot really completely escape what moves us.

IRL one of the most touching memorials I saw was up in Boston Mass....after dinner one night with my family....we wandered across the street to a small but profoundly poignant Holocaust memorial. It was just these 4 glass block pillars that ya walked thru with the names all etched on the insides....and grates under your feet with steam pouring up. I'll never forget the feeling of walking thru those....it was almost heart stopping. I don't mind being affected....it emphasises how connected I am to the world I live in....and how much other human beings do indeed matter to me. (loner that I tend to be)