What about an animated condolence card?

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I don't have statistics on this, and frankly, I don't even know where to start. It wouldn't be enough to simply find out how many digital condolence cards are sent in comparison to other types of e-cards. We'd have to compare that to the percentage of snail mail condolence cards among all other snail mail greetings cards sent. And of course more people are having birthdays and getting married and celebrating life-cycle events than are dying, and that would have to be factored into the statistics as well. I'm not going to be doing that research.

I have, however, done a bit of checking. The leading e-card companies all offer sympathy cards, most of them animated. Among what are probably thousands of e-cards on a wide assortment of topics that they display, Blue Mountain, American Greetings and Hallmark offer 12, 48 and 30 sympathy e-cards respectively.

I don't send digital greeting cards. The only one I've ever sent was self-made - a very primitive animated gif. Sometimes I've even gone so far as to refuse to open them. But frankly, I can't see what might be wrong with them, other than the fact that non-digitally oriented people wouldn't appreciate them.

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