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Tributes.com thinks it may

Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor thinks so, as his Tributes.com prepares for a launch next month, with the Wall Street Journal and others backing it.

The final frontier of life for one leaves others behind, and those others look for ways to express what they feel. It's happened across the Internet on large and small sites. To Taylor, the best way to bring those feelings together with necessary information about someone's passing will be with his new site.

His account of Tributes.com at Wired touches on the necessary bits of details: what the site will provide to the bereaved, and how it will work with what the report called the death-care industry:

The site sets itself apart from memorial sites like SweetMemoriesSite.com, ChristianMemorials.com and PreciousMemoriesAndMore.com in two ways. First, people can find information on those who've died with a name search from a database that includes the entire Social Security Death Index since 1936 (which Legacy.com already offers). And second, the site plans to market more to the funeral industry than other sites, where individuals pay for tributes.

Make no mistake, death is big business in the world. People want to grieve online, as has been demonstrated many times. Tributes may fill a specific niche, and help people move forward when others depart. It could become very successful while doing so.