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Live-Tweeting a Loved One’s Death
NPR’s “Weekend Edition” host Scott Simon touched a chord beyond his own followers when he tweeted about his mother as she was dying in a hospital. Are social media platforms making it easier to confront the inevitable?
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readNPR’s “Weekend Edition” host Scott Simon touched a chord beyond his own followers when he tweeted about his mother as she was dying in a hospital. Are social media platforms making it easier to confront the inevitable?
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