Actually, I read about a person who had a wake before he died. He only had a few days left to live and everyone came and gave their eulogies and visited with him in a grand party before he died. It was the most incredible idea.

They shouldn’t erase you unless you ask (or are banned), it may be that all of your prims will eventually be returned, since land ownership is impermanent. And eventually, everyone who has your items in their inventory will eventually leave as well, and no one will have an active link to your creation. Kind of sad.

Reminds of me of the poem:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Ucello, Knowing that when I leave Second Life® for any reason my avatar name will eventually be erased and all the works I have in-world will show no creator, I named one of the prims in the memorial for her because object names are not changed. That I did not know? Why would they do that? Kinda takes the ‘everything is possible’ out of SL, if you can’t even live forever because what you have created/achieved lasts… sad story.

I would speak of your talent, how wonderful you’ve always been (were?), how much you give (gave?), how fun you are (were?), and how cute you are :) [I doubt avatars decompose so ‘were’ wouldn’t be appropriate.]

The superlatives would tumble from my lips like petals from your waning flower.

I would be choked up, crying the whole time, and I would build a small memorial to you in my palace garden. The world will be less rich with your absence but my life has been improved by knowing you.

In the end, I’d probably end up complaining about you not having sex with me :)

Why wait until you die to find out what people think of you? And I like Shockwave’s animation idea - we’ll definitely need a ‘throw oneself on the coffin and weep’ animation.

I don’t really think a ceremony is needed, but if people want to have one, I wont stop them.

Knowing that when I leave Second Life® for any reason my avatar name will eventually be erased and all the works I have in-world will show no creator, I named one of the prims in the memorial for her because object names are not changed. It will be a continuing remembrance for a special person even if few will see it or know who created it.

I would also make a animation that throws onesself on the coffin.

And I would come as a Neko.