Respectance gives those going through the grieving process a place to network with others coping with the same emotions. People can connect with others through forums and special interest groups. Similar to user friendly Facebook or Myspace, Respectance is easy enough to use by any amateur Web user. Creating tribute pages, posting photos, videos, and stories are all easily accessible with Respectance’s idiot-proof tools. The result creates an interactive and improvised forum for the respected, and the respectees.

At first glance, Respectance may seem like a perverse Facebook for the dead, but it’s easy to see that it is truly a place for the living—and a respectable one. Derks sums it up well … “It’s not for the dead, but for the living to celebrate the lives of those who have passed away.”