With the advent of blogging, facebook, and other very public social media outlets, Americans have found a unique outlet to deal with grief and the processing of death. It has become more acceptable to talk about death, about the death of a child, and about miscarriage (see for example, Mark Zuckerberg’s very public announcement about the impending birth of his child and his wife’s multiple miscarriages). [4] Digital resources are allowing people to connect to others who have suffered similar losses, or who have gone through similar death and grieving processes. This openness has normalized discussions of death, and has pushed the American dead into a new model that doesn’t fit with any of Robben’s models. I will leave it to Robben and other anthropologists of death to identify the appropriate name for this new model, but as much of our class’s research seems to show, the American way of death is being changed by technology.