World Wide Cemetery >>
Michael Stanley Kibbee
The Internet is where you go when you die.
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[Profile] Michael Stanley Kibbee, The Creator of the World Wide Cemetery was born in
Brockville, Ontario, February 5, 1964. He grew up in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario
and died in Toronto March 8, 1997, of Hodgkins Disease. He was an engineer, and
when he found out that he was dying, he designed and built his own coffin.
Previously he had been working on the Hibernia project in Newfoundland, the
youngest engineer ever hired to do so. With his friend Steve Brauer, he
developed the virtual cemetery, hoping to be the first person buried there
(here). He ended up living longer than expected and was not able to realize
this dream. When it was brought to his attention that he would not be the first
person buried there: "Oh I know," he said, with that antic smile that carried
us through one more summer of remission; one more summer of headlong
motorcycling that would wrap the midnight city round us like a flag; one more
summer of drifting too far out into a lake that mirrored a sky weeping with
fire. "Oh, I know," he said, "I know. Isn't that a bummer!"
(Gerald Hannon)
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