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Twitter: Live from the deathbed

Kristi Bruno
Social Media in Medicine
February 28, 2014

We tweet about births, weddings, first days of school, anniversaries, illness, and mundane things like what we had for dinner last night.

One area that seems to send shock waves and launches a thousand Mashable articles is tweeting about someone dying.

Last summer, NPR’s Scott Simon tweeted live from his mother’s bedside. And the world watched and mourned right along side him. Right now, Laurie Kilmartin, a comic from the show, …

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Twitter: Live from the deathbed

In one of the darkest days of my life, you cared for my mom

Kristi Bruno
Patient
March 15, 2013

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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. 
-Kahlil Gibran

Dear Debbie,

You cared for my mom briefly in the ICU.  You might not remember me, but I remember you. My mother, a healthy 54-year-old woman came down with the flu on Christmas. Within a …

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In one of the darkest days of my life, you cared for my mom

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