If you haven’t come across one of these profiles, they’re absolutely heartbreaking. They have become online tombs littered with messages and memories posted by friends and family members. Reading comments that go from the everyday mundane like, “See you next week” to “I've trying my best to ‘cope’ with all this but it's just so hard. Life is never going to be the same without you,” is enough to make a complete stranger get a little misty-eyed.

If you’re morbidly curious, but don’t know where to find a dead MySpacer, there’s a new resource: MyDeathSpace.com, a site that collects and archives submitted MySpace profiles and obituaries of the recently deceased.

Unsurprisingly, My Death Space has sparked controversy, launching sites like Action Against My Death Space. The site claims that owner of My Death Space exploits the tragedy of death by featuring a cartoon-like skull as its logo and not moderating comments in its forum.

For me, though, it’s seeing an obituary headline like this, that’s the real tragedy.