Anna Svidersky

Anna Esther Svidersky (April 26 1988 - April 20 2006)

was a teenager who lived in the U.S. city of Vancouver Washington, and was murdered while working in a McDonalds restaurant, by schizophrenic sex offender David Barton Sullivan.

News of her death quickly spread worldwide, initially through the Internet friends site MySpace, where she had a personal page, and then through other similar sites. This created an effect of mass collective grief and mourning for her, mostly from people who had previously known nothing about her. It has led to the creation of memorial web pages and memorial online videos, one of which has been viewed over 3,000,000 times.

In Britain 'The Gurdian' newspaper compared the widespread expression of grief by strangers to that seen after the death of Princess Diana. The paper cited the 2004 Civitas think-tank, which described such grief as "mourning sickness", related to people's own emotional needs, rather than any real rapport with the deceased.

(info by wikipedia)


Ok the story IS very powerful as it contains the element of originality but its fuckin twisted!!
Mourn over a person you do not know seems unquestionably fake.